title: [Content and bioconcentration of mercury by European Blusher (Amanita rubescens) from Northern Poland].
abstract: Total mercury content have been determined in 45 fruiting bodies of European Blusher (Amanita rubescens) and soil substrate collected from three spatially distant sites at the Pomorskie Voivodeship in 2006-2007. Mercury analysis carried out was by cold-vapour atomic absorption (CV-AAS) with amalgamation on golden wool. The European Blusher effectively accumulated mercury and median BCF values of this element ranged from 9.5 to 24 for the caps and from 6.1 to 15 for the stipes. For the areas surveyed mean concentration values of total mercury ranged from 0.46 to 0.93 (0.098-3.2) microg/g dw for the caps, from 0.27 to 0.65 (0.077-2.7) microg/g dw for the stipes and from 0.032 do 0.040 (0.0096-0.20) microg/g dw for soil substrate.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Chemii Srodowiska i Ekotoksykologii, Uniwersytet Gdański, 80-952 Gdańsk, ul. Sobieskiego 19.
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rompa
authors.forename: Leszek
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bielawski
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Falandysz
mesh_terms: D000545:Amanita / Q000737:chemistry*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D008628:Mercury / Q000032:analysis*; D011044:Poland; D012016:Reference Values; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000032:analysis; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D012989:Soil Pollutants; D008628:Mercury