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The Wildlife Community of Iona Island Jetty, Vancouver, B.C., and Heavy-metal Pollution Effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

David A. Brown ,
Carole A. Bawden ,
Kenneth W. Chatel  and
Timothy R. Parsons
David A. Brown
Affiliation:
Respectively staff members and Professor, Institute of Oceanography, University of British Columbia, 2075 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Carole A. Bawden
Affiliation:
Respectively staff members and Professor, Institute of Oceanography, University of British Columbia, 2075 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Kenneth W. Chatel
Affiliation:
Respectively staff members and Professor, Institute of Oceanography, University of British Columbia, 2075 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Timothy R. Parsons
Affiliation:
Respectively staff members and Professor, Institute of Oceanography, University of British Columbia, 2075 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
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Marine and terrestial animals have been shown to be particularly abundant in a wildlife community associated with a marine sewer outfall from the City of Vancouver. These same animals are contaminated with high levels of heavy-metals but are apparently protected from their poisonous effects by the production of a protein known as metallothionein. The amount of metallothionein and heavy-metal loading appears to depend primarily on the degree of pollution and secondly on the species of animal and its position in the food-web.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1977 , pp. 213 - 216
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1977

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