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Accumulation of Trace Elements in the Marsh Frog Pelophylax ridibundus in Cooling Ponds of the Middle Urals

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A study of the accumulation of trace elements in the marsh frog Pelophylax ridibundus Pall., 1771 in the heating zones of the cooling ponds of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant and Reftinsk heating electric power plant has been carried out. For the entire set of data on the concentrations of elements in frogs, no statistically significant differences are found between the studied water bodies. Using the example of both water bodies, no differences in the accumulation of elements by males and females of amphibians are revealed. A significant correlation between the concentration of elements in adult frogs with their content in water and plankton is found. An excess of the maximum permissible concentrations of some elements in the water of both reservoirs, as well as an excess of the concentrations of a number of elements in frogs, compared with background values, are revealed.

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This study was carried out as part of the State Assignment of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, project no. ААААА19-119032090023-0.

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  1. Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia

    M. Ya. Chebotina, V. P. Guseva & D. L. Berzin

  2. Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia

    D. L. Berzin

  3. Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia

    I. V. Volkov & E. V. Polyakov

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Abbreviations: MPC, maximal permissible concentration.

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Chebotina, M.Y., Guseva, V.P., Berzin, D.L. et al. Accumulation of Trace Elements in the Marsh Frog Pelophylax ridibundus in Cooling Ponds of the Middle Urals. Inland Water Biol 15, 189–194 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082922020043

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