title: Ecotoxicological investigation of the effect of accumulation of PAH and possible impact of dispersant in resting high arctic copepod Calanus hyperboreus.
abstract: Due to high lipid content and a slow metabolism, there is a higher risk of bioaccumulation of oil compounds in Arctic than in temperate copepods. There is also a concern that the bioavailability of oil compounds is higher when oil is dispersed with dispersants. The purpose of this project was to increase the knowledge on how the use of dispersants on an oil spill may affect the passive uptake of PAHs in resting high arctic copepods using Calanus hyperboreus as a model organism. To evaluate this, resting high arctic C. hyperboreus were caught in Disko Bay at>250 meters depth, November 2013, and subsequent experimental work was initiated immediately after, at nearby Arctic Station at Disko Island Western Greenland. C. hyperboreus females were incubated in phenanthrene (111, 50 and 10 nM), pyrene (57, 28 and 6 nM) and benzo(a) pyrene (10, 5 and 1 nM) for three days in treatments with and without oil (corn oil) and dispersant (AGMA DR372). After exposure, the highest measured concentrations of respectively phenanthrene, pyrene and benzo(a) pyrene in the copepods were 129, 30 and 6 nmol PAH g female(-1). Results showed that with addition of oil and dispersant to the water, the accumulation of PAH was significantly reduced, due to the deposition of the PAHs in the oil phase, decreasing the available PAHs for copepod uptake. While PAH metabolites and a depuration of the PAHs were observed, the copepods still contained PAHs after 77 days of incubation in clean seawater. Differences of treatments with and without oil and dispersant on the egg production were not statistically conclusive, although it is the most likely an effect of the highly variable day-to-day egg production between individual copepods. Equally, although there was an indication that the addition of dispersant and oil increased the mortality rate, there was no statistical difference.
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Bioscience, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark. Electronic address: rdyn@bios.au.dk.
authors.forename: Rasmus Dyrmose
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Nørregaard
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Bioscience, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gustavson
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Bioscience, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: Eva Friis
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Møller
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Bioscience, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: Jakob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Strand
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Bioscience, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: Zhanna
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tairova
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Bioscience, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mosbech
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001110:Arctic Regions; D033342:Copepoda / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D054750:Ecotoxicology; D005260:Female; D006116:Greenland; D059392:Petroleum Pollution; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity*; D012098:Reproduction / Q000187:drug effects; D012623:Seawater / Q000737:chemistry; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity*
chemical_list: D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical
keywords: AGMA DR372; BCF; Benzo(a)pyrene; Calanus hyperboreus; Dispersant; Greenland; PAH; Phenanthrene; Pyrene