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Metal concentrations in sediment and amphibian tissues from wetlands sampled across the United States

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2015-06-24
End Date
2019-08-30

Citation

Smalling, K.L., Cleveland, D.M., Oja, E.B., and Hossack, B.R., 2021, Metal concentrations in sediment and amphibian tissues from wetlands sampled across the United States: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Q3LM78.

Summary

The data presented include concentrations of 10 metals in sediments and composite larval amphibian tissues from 20 wetlands across the United States. Sixteen of the wetlands were sampled in 2019 and four were sampled in 2015-2016. Where possible both larval anurans (frogs and toads) and salamanders were collected from each wetland. The data also include information on metal concentrations in amphibian tissues after the gut contents were removed to understand metal bioaccumulation potential and the molar ratio of selenium to mercury in each tissue composite sample. This data release supports the following publication: Smalling, K.L., Oja, E.B., Cleveland, D.M., Davenport, J.M., Eagles-Smith, C., Grant, E.H.C., Kleeman, P.M., Halstead, [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Kelly Smalling
Process Contact :
Kelly Smalling, Danielle M Cleveland
Originator :
Kelly Smalling, Danielle M Cleveland, Emily B Oja, Blake R Hossack
Metadata Contact :
Kelly Smalling
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
New Jersey Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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TrophicMetalsMetaData.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		73.42 KB application/fgdc+xml
SiteInformation.txt 1,023 Bytes text/plain
MetalSedimentConcentration.txt 1.69 KB text/plain
MetalAmphibianTissueConcentration.txt 11.91 KB text/plain
MetalTissueConcentrationDissected.txt 1.14 KB text/plain
TissueSeHgMolarConcentrations_ratios.txt 3.23 KB text/plain

Purpose

The data were gathered to determine if metal accumulation in larval amphibians from the same wetland is impacted by trophic position. The data were also used to examine how metal concentrations vary with body size (anuran and salamander larvae) and developmental stage (anuran larvae).

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