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. 2021 May 24;55(12):7900–7909. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c07129

Table 1. Calculated Emergent Aquatic Insect Numbers, Emergence Biomass, and Insect-Mediated PFAS Transfer Per Square Meter and Day, as well as PFAS Concentration Measured in Terrestrial Spiders, for 2017 and 2018 from the Stream (K1), the Lake (KS), and the Reference Pond (KRef)a.

  number of individuals (m–2 d–1)
biomass (mg dw m–2 d–1)
PFAS transfer (ng m–2 d–1)
PFAS in spiders (ng g–1 dw)
site 2017 2018 2017 2018 2017 2018 2017
K1 - 11 - 3.1 - 2.1 640
KS 25 17 49 6.4 280 23 1400 ± 82
KRef 46 18 44 9.2 0.4 0.1 35
a

Due to low emergence, no values could be determined for K1 in 2017. Note that the data on emergent aquatic insects are based on insects caught via deposition traps only.