| distribution of contaminants in aquatic organisms from east fork popular creek. | the ecological risk assessment of east fork poplar creek (efpc) in oak ridge, tennessee, investigated the nature and magnitude of the observed or expected adverse effects of the site's organic and inorganic contaminants on the ecosystem structure and function. aquatic biota such as benthic macroinvertebrates, crayfish (astacidae), redbreast sunfish (lepomis auritus), and stonerollers (campostoma anomalum), representative of various habitats, were sampled for whole-body contaminant analysis. the ... | 1996 | 8744923 |
| use of central stonerollers (cyprinidae: campostoma anomalum) from tennessee as a bioindicator of metal contamination. | we compared the levels of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, manganese, mercury and selenium in a small species of fish (central stonerollers, campostoma anomalum) collected from east fork poplar creek (efpc) and a reference site in eastern tennessee. stonerollers are minnows in the cyprinidae family that serve as prey for many carnivores in aquatic systems. fish were collected from east fork poplar creek within the u.s. department of energy's y-12 national security complex, part of the oak ridge ... | 2005 | 16308785 |