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The paper presents data on a comparative study of the bioaccumulation of trace elements in benthic organisms at the shelf in the Yenisei estuary in the Kara Sea and an area of methane seeps in the Deryugin Basin in the Sea of Okhotsk. The data pertain to both essential elements (Fe, Mn, Ni, Co, Cr, and Cu), which are necessary, in certain concentrations, for the metabolism of organisms, and nonessential heavy metals (Cd, Pb, and Hg), as well as As, a toxic metalloid, whose concentrations are subject to standards issued by the World Health Organization for various environments and seafoods. Our data showed that dominated representatives of the bottom-living fauna from the estuary of the Yenisei River (isopoda Saduria spp. and bivalve Portlandia spp.) and from the Deryugin Basin (actinia Actiniaria and clam Vesicomyidae family) were characterized by high bioaccumulation coefficients of most of the elements (≥n × 103), regardless of their biochemical properties. The use of the coefficient K, which characterizes the accumulation of trace elements in the soft tissues of bivalves relative to their shells, allowed us to detect differences in the character of bioaccumulation. In the mussels (both filter-feeding and suspension-feeders) from the Yenisei estuary, K < 1 for most of the elements (Mn, Fe, Cr, Co, Ni, and As), and this suggests that these elements were preferably accumulated in the carbonate shells. Conversely, symbiotrophic Vesicomyidae clams from the Deryugin Basin were characterized by the preferable accumulation of all of the trace elements in gills and soft tissues (the coefficient K ≫ 1). The likely reasons for this are thought to be different effect of abiotic (biological availability of elements and water turbidity) and biotic (throphic strategies) factors of the habitats.
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Original Russian Text © L.L. Demina, S.V. Galkin, 2018, published in Geokhimiya, 2018, No. 6, pp. 572–585.
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Demina, L.L., Galkin, S.V. Bioaccumulation of Trace Elements in Organisms of Benthic Biocenoses in Oceanic Oxidized and Reduced Environments: Similarities and Differences. Geochem. Int. 56, 566–578 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702918060034
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