| comparison of metal accumulation in mussels at different local and global scales. | cadmium and zinc uptake from the dissolved phase, assimilation efficiency (ae) from the dietary phase, and body burden as well as clearance rate were measured in green mussels, perna viridis, and blue mussels mytilus edulis, m. galloprovincialis and mytilus trossulus. perna viridis was collected from four sites differentially enriched with trace metals in hong kong and blue mussels were collected from different climatic zones, i.e., subarctic and temperate, to allow comparisons with the more tro ... | 2003 | 12558172 |