| relation between metal concentration in water and metal content of marine mussels (mytilus galloprovincialis): impact of physiology. | the present study constitutes an in situ investigation of metal kinetics within soft tissue of mussels (mytilus galloprovincialis), which solves the problem of the decoupling of the effect of animal physiology and metal bioavailability in water. field experiments were conducted to measure uptake and elimination kinetics for four metals (hg, pb, cd, and cu) in three mediterranean sites with different contamination and nutritive levels. at each site, metal concentrations were monitored in soft tis ... | 2008 | 18260691 |