| Title | 137Cs baseline levels in the Mediterranean and Black Sea: A cross-basin survey of the CIESM Mediterranean Mussel Watch programme |
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| Publication Type | Articolo su Rivista peer-reviewed |
| Year of Publication | 2008 |
| Authors | Thébault, H., Rodriguez y Baena A.M., Andral B., Barisic D., Albaladejo J.B., Bologa A.S., Boudjenoun R., Delfanti Roberta, Egorov V.N., T. Khoukhi El, Florou H., Kniewald G., Noureddine A., Patrascu V., Pham M.K., Scarpato A., Stokozov N.A., Topcuoglu S., and Warnau M. |
| Journal | Marine Pollution Bulletin |
| Volume | 57 |
| Pagination | 801-806 |
| ISSN | 0025326X |
| Keywords | Animals, article, Baseline levels, Bioavailability, Biodiversity, biological monitoring, biomonitoring, bivalve, Bivalvia, Black sea, cesium 137, Cesium compounds, cesium isotope, Cesium Isotopes, Coastal stations, concentration (composition), Concentration (process), controlled study, Data Collection, Environmental monitoring, Eurasia, hydrographic survey, Mediterranean Mussel Watch (MMW), Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean Sea (West), mussel, Mytilus, Mytilus galloprovincialis, nonhuman, Oceans and Seas, pollution monitoring, Power Plants, quantitative analysis, Radioactive, Radioisotopes, radionuclide, sea pollution, Water Pollutants |
| Abstract | The common mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis was selected as unique biomonitor species to implement a regional monitoring programme, the CIESM Mediterranean Mussel Watch (MMW), in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. As of today, and upon standardization of the methodological approach, the MMW Network has been able to quantify 137Cs levels in mussels from 60 coastal stations and to produce the first distribution map of this artificial radionuclide at the scale of the entire Mediterranean and Black Seas. While measured 137Cs levels were found to be very low (usually <1 Bq kg-1 wet wt) 137Cs activity concentrations in the Black Sea and North Aegean Sea were up to two orders of magnitude higher than those in the western Mediterranean Basin. Such effects, far from representing a threat to human populations or the environment, reflect a persistent signature of the Chernobyl fallout in this area. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| Notes | cited By 40 |
| URL | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-45049087738&doi=10.1016%2fj.marpolbul.2007.11.010&partnerID=40&md5=0d58e00201e3d3b472fe9cf57ae08360 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.11.010 |
| Citation Key | Thébault2008801 |
