does any pesticide have been reported to be biomagnified through the food chain or they are more specific to bio-conversation, can it be interlinked, correlated, or have any factors of conversion for different pesticides with species specificity?
Biomagnification, also known as bioamplification or biological magnification, is any concentration of a toxin, such as pesticides, in the tissues of tolerant organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain.[
Yes. Earlier most of the organo chlorine pesticides were reported in Bio-magnification. Because these pesticides are highly persistent non degradable.
Dear Sharada Shrinivas Pati this is a very good and important technical question, as the bio-magnification or bioaccumulation of pesticides is a growing threat these days. Please note that the first answer has just been copied and pasted from the respective Wikipedia entry on "Biomagnification" at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification
For more information about this issue please have a look at the following potentially useful article:
Bioconcentration, Bioaccumulation, and Metabolism of Pesticides in Aquatic Organisms
Article Bioconcentration, Bioaccumulation, and Metabolism of Pestici...
This paper has been posted by the author as public full text on RG, so it can bee freely downloaded as pdf file. The following book chapter has also been posted on RG but not as public full text:
Bioaccumulation of Pesticides and Its Impact on Biological Systems
Chapter Bioaccumulation of Pesticides and Its Impact on Biological Systems
Perhaps you can access this article through your institution. Alternatively you can request the full text directly from the authors via RG.
The following article published in 2019 highlights the biomagnification of chlorinated pesticides:
BIO MAGNIFICATION OF ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDES IN ARABIAN SEA
Research BIO MAGNIFICATION OF ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDES IN ARABIAN SEA
You can also search the "Publications" section of RG for the term "biomagnification of pesticides" to find and access other helpful references on this topic:
https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?type=publication&query=biomagnification%20pesticides
I hope this helps. Good luck with your research and best wishes, Frank Edelmann
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