0422781 - ÚVGZ 2015 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Stockdale, A. - Tipping, E. - Lofts, S. - Fott, J. - Garmo, Ø. - Hruška, Jakub - Keller, B. - Löfgren, S. - Maberlyh, S. - Majer, V. - Nierzwicki-Bauer, S. A. - Persson, G. - Schartau, A. - Thackeray, S. J. - Valois, A. - Vrba, Jaroslav - Walseng, B. - Yan, N.
Metal and proton toxicity to lake zooplankton: A chemical speciation based modelling approach.
Environmental Pollution. Roč. 186, MAR (2014), s. 115-125. ISSN 0269-7491. E-ISSN 1873-6424
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) ED1.1.00/02.0073; GA ČR GA206/07/1200
Institutional support: RVO:67179843 ; RVO:60077344
Keywords : chemical speciation * bioavailability * recovery * crustacean zooplankton * lakes
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour
Impact factor: 4.143, year: 2014

The WHAM-FTOX model quantifies the combined toxic effects of protons and metal cations towards aquatic organisms through the toxicity function (FTOX), a linear combination of the products of organism-bound cation and a toxic potency coefficient for each cation. We describe the application of the model to predict an observable ecological field variable, species richness of pelagic lake crustacean zooplankton, studied with respect to either acidification or the impacts of metals from smelters. The fitted results give toxic potencies increasing in the order H+ < Al < Cu < Zn < Ni. In general, observed species richness is lower than predicted, but in some instances agreement is close, and is rarely higher than predictions. The model predicts recovery in agreement with observations for three regions, namely Sudbury (Canada), Bohemian Forest (Czech Republic) and a subset of lakes across Norway, but fails to predict observed recovery from acidification in Adirondack lakes (USA).
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0229011