The objective of this thesis was to construct general models to predict pollutant fluxes in limnoplankton by incorporating characteristics of the organism and the structures of the chemical. A two-compartmental pharmacokinetic model was used to quantify the pollutant uptake, depuration and intercompartmental exchanges. The model pollutants were phosphorus and 22 organic chemicals. / The rate constants of phosphorus uptake, excretion and intercompartmental changes by algae and cladocerans decreased with cell volume or body size raised to a power close to $-$0.25, except the intercompartmental exchanges for cladocerans which showed more negative slopes. In contrast, uptake, excretion and internal exchange rates per individual increased with cell size or body weight to a power similar to 0.75 with a similar exception for the cladoceran intercompartmental exchanges, which had slopes $<$0.75. / Bioconcentration factors, rate constants and flux rates of uptake and intercompartmental exchange from metabolic pool to structural pool of 22 $ sp{14}$C-labelled organic toxicants by Chlorella pyrenoidosa and Daphnia magna were positively correlated with the octanol/water partition coefficient, molecular weight, parachor, connectivity index, boiling point and melting point, and negatively with aqueous solubility. However, those of elimination and internal transfer from structural pool to metabolic pool showed opposite changes. Comparisons of pharmacokinetic parameters between Daphnia and Chlorella demonstrated that, although all kinetic parameters displayed similar patterns, the relative magnitudes of each corresponding parameters were significantly different between two species.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.34481 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | Wen, Yuan Hua. |
| Contributors | Peters, Robert Henry (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Biology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001555725, proquestno: NQ30415, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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