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Anabaena is a cyanobacteria a prokaryotic blue-green algae
Rhaphoneis is a plankton

Grass Shrimp
Blue Crab
Silk Snapper
Black-Necked Stilt
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Linking Selenium Sources to Ecosystems
Food web from particulates through prey to predators


Introduction

Guidelines

Irrigation

Refining

Mining

References

Library/Links

Index Page


REFERENCES


INTRODUCTION

Presser, T.S., Piper, D.Z., Bird, K.J., Skorupa, J.P.,Hamilton, S.J., Detwiler, S.J. and Huebner, M.A., 2004, The Phosphoria Formation: a model for forecasting global selenium sources to the environment in J. Hein, ed., Life Cycle of the Phosphoria Formation: From Deposition to the Post-Mining Environment, Elsevier, New York, p. 299-319. (See Library for pdf)

Skorupa, J.P., 1998, Selenium Poisoning of Fish and Wildlife in Nature: Lessons from Twelve Real-World Examples in W. Frankenberger and R.A.Engberg, eds., Environmental Chemistry of Selenium, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York., p. 315-354. (See Library for pdf)

GUIDELINES

Detwiler, S.J., 2002,Toxicokinetics of selenium in the avian egg: comparisons between species differing in embryonic tolerance. Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. California, Davis. 192 p.

Hamilton, S.J. and Hoffman, D.J, 2003, Trace Element and Nutrition Interactions in Fish and Wildlife, in D.J. Hoffman, B.A. Rattner, G.A. Burton Jr., and J Cairns Jr., eds., Handbook of Ecotoxicology, Lewis Publishers, Washington D.C. p. 1197-1235.

Heinz, G.H., 1996, Selenium in Birds, in W.N. Beyer, G.H. Heinz, and A.W. Redmond-Norwood eds., Environmental Contaminants in Wildlife: Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, CRC Press, p. 447-458.

Lemly, A.D., 2002, Selenium Assessment in Aquatic Ecosystems: a Guide for Hazard Evaluation and Water Quality Criteria: Springer, New York, 161 p.

Ohlendorf, H.M., 2003, Ecotoxicology of Selenium, in D.J. Hoffman, B.A. Rattner, G.A. Burton Jr., and J Cairns Jr., eds., Handbook of Ecotoxicology. Lewis Publishers, Washington D.C., p. 465-500.

Puls, R., 1988, Mineral levels in animal health: Diagnostic Data, (2nd edn.). Sherpa International, Clearbrook, British Colombia, Canada, 356 pp.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1996, Toxicological profile for selenium: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Public Health Service, USDHHS, Atlanta, Georgia, 185 p. (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp92.html)

U.S. Department of the Interior (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Geological Survey, Bureau of Indian Affairs), 1998, R.A. Engberg (ed), Guidelines for interpretation of the biological effects of selected constituents in biota, water, and sediment: National Irrigation Water Quality Program, USDOI, BOR, Denver, Colorado, p. 139-184 (http://www.usbr.gov/niwqp/guidelines/).

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1998, Report on the peer consultation workshop on selenium aquatictoxicity and bioaccumulation: USEPA, Washington, D.C., 59 p.; Appendices A-F.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service, 1998 and amended 2000, Biological opinion on USEPA’s proposed rule for the promulgation of water quality standard: establishment of numericcriteria for priority toxic pollutants for the state of California: USFWS and NMFS, 260 p.

Venugopal, B. and T.D. Luckey, 1978, Metal Toxicity in Mammals, Vol. 2. Plenum, New York. 409 pp.

IRRIGATION

Presser, T.S., 1994, The Kesterson Effect: Environmental Management, 18(3):437-454.
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Presser, T.S., 2004, Agriculture in the Western United States, (http://menlocampus.wr.usgs.gov/50years/accomplishments/agriculture.html)

Presser, T.S., Sylvester, M.A., and Low, W.H., 1994, Bioaccumulation of selenium from natural geologic sources in the Western States and its potential consequences: Environmental Management, 18(3):423-436. (See Library for pdf)

Presser, T.S. and Piper, D.Z., 1998, Mass balance approach to selenium cycling through the San Joaquin Valley, sources to river to bay, in W. Frankenberger and R.A.Engberg, eds., environmental Chemistry of Selenium, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York., p. 153-182. (See Library for pdf)

Seiler, R.L., Skorupa, J.P., Naftz, D.L. and Nolan, B.T., 2003, Irrigation-induced contamination of water, sediment, and biota in the western United States—synthesis of data from the National Irrigation Water Quality Program: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1655, 123 p. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1655/)

Skorupa, J.P. and Ohlendorf, H.M, 1991, Contaminants in drainage water and avian risk thresholds, in A. Dinar and D. Zilberman, eds., The Economics and Management of Water and Drainage in Agriculture, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston Massachusetts, p. 345-368. (See Library for pdf)

REFINING

Presser, T.S. and Luoma, S.N., 2006, Forecasting selenium discharges to the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary: Ecological effects of a proposed San Luis Drain extension, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1646, 196 p.(http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1646/)

Presser, T.S. and Luoma, S.N., Linking selenium sources toecosystems: San Francisco Bay-Delta Model: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2004-3091. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2004/3091/)

MINING

Cook, P.JU. and Shergold, J.H., 1986. Phosphate deposits of the world, Volume 1, Proterozoic and Cambrian Phosphorites, Cambridge University Press, 386 p.

Klemme, H.D. and Ulmishek, G.F., 1991, Effective petroleum source rocks of the world: stratigraphic distribution and controlling depositional factors. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull., 75: 1809-1851.

Notholt, A.J.G., Sheldon, R.P. and Davidson, D.F., 1989. Phosphate deposits of the world, Volume 2, Phosphate Rock Resources, Cambridge University, New York. 566 p.

Presser, T.S., Hardy, M., Huebner, M.A. and Lamothe, P.J., 2004, Selenium Loading Through The Blackfoot River Watershed: Linking Sources to Ecosystems: in J. Hein, ed., Life Cycle of the Phosphoria Formation: From Deposition to the Post-Mining Environment, Elsevier, New York, p. 437-466. (See Library for pdf)

Trelease, S.F. and Beath, O.A., 1949. Selenium: its geological occurrence and its biological effects in relation to botany, chemistry, agriculture, nutrition, and medicine, Trelease and Beath, New York, 292 pp.

U.S Army Corps of Engineers, U.S Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Office of Surface Mining, and West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, 2003, Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (DPEIS) on Mountaintop Coal Mining and Associated Valley Fills in Appalachia, Chapters 1-9, Appendices A - K.

 

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Theresa S. Presser
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National Research Program
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Joseph P. Skorupa
joseph_skorupa@fws.gov
Division of Environmental Quality
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA 22203
703-358-2402


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