title: [Content and accumulation of mercury in common puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum)].
abstract: The total mercury content have been determined in fruiting bodies of Common Puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum) and soil substrate collected from four sites localized in northern part of Poland. Common Puffball effectively accumulates mercury and means of the bioconcentration factor (BCF) in this study ranged from 65 +/- 27 to 110 +/- 36. Depending on the sampling site total mercury content of Common Puffball ranged from 0.91 +/- 0.28 to 2.4 +/- 0.4 microg/g dry weight. The total mercury content of fruiting bodies of Common Puffball to some degree is determinate both by degree of soil substrate contamination and bioavailability of this element from underlying to fruitbody at the sites surveyed.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Chemii Srodowiska i Ekotoksykologii, Uniwersytet Gdański, 80-952 Gdańsk, ul. Sobieskiego 19.
authors.forename: Dominika
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Romińska
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dryzałowska
authors.forename: Leszek
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bielawski
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Falandysz
mesh_terms: D000363:Agaricales / Q000737:chemistry*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; 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