Lipid content in tissues

In contrast. Lake et al. (1985) found very low BAFs ([tissue]/[sediment]) for PAHs in the polychaete Nereis virens (0.02-0.07) exposed to field-collected sediment from Black Rock Harbor, Connecticut, which may be even lower when expressed as BAFiocS because lipid content in tissue is generally higher than TOC in sediment. The authors pointed out that feeding by the worms was poor and thus water may have been the major route of PAH uptake. Because they also reported partitioning (ATp) values ([sedi-ment]/[water]) that were 5-50 times higher than expected, we can conclude that water concentrations of PAHs were much lower than expected, which may be responsible in part for the lower than expected BAFs. 

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