Sentences with word «biomagnification»

Eggs, being a trophic level above plants, are still sources of increased biomagnification of environmental pollutants.

Because these chemicals don't easily break down, animals that eat animals laced with these toxins end up with ever - higher levels of them — a process known as biomagnification.

The unsolved mystery resurfaced in the PNAS cyanobacteria bloom study, which provides the first evidence for BMAA biomagnification in an aquatic food chain.

«The lack of any significant biomagnification through the food chain indicates that there is very little risk of harm from exposure to these CUPs in this region.»

«The lack of biomagnification also means that we are unlikely to see sudden unexpected increases in concentrations of the CUPs in terrestrial top predators,» he said.

And by, you know, biomagnifications in the food chain [the accumulation of substances in increasingly high concentrations as larger organisms feed on smaller ones].

The concentrations were even lower in wolves, suggesting sufficient metabolism of CUPs in both animals to prevent significant biomagnification.

Methylmercury builds up in the food web through a process called «biomagnification», said Ms Gionfriddo, PhD candidate from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne.

The biomagnification of mercury means that organisms higher on the food chain contain higher levels of the metal.

Remember that biomagnification (accumulation of heavy metals and other toxins in animal foods) is more of a problem than consuming the smaller amounts we get from grains ourselves.

Because of «bioaccumulation» (mercury collects over time in organisms» bodies, including human bodies) and «biomagnification» (concentration increases as animals eat other animals) we are most exposed through eating animal products.