DDT residues in an East Coast estuary¶
Woodwell, G. M., Wurster, C. F., & Isaacson, P. A. (1967). DDT residues in an East Coast estuary: a case of biological concentration of a persistent insecticide. Science, 156(3776), 821-824.
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Primes¶
- Bioaccumulation
- The construct's portability to non-toxicological domains (software technical debt, institutional norm drift, organizational memory loss) reflects the generality of the underlying kinetic and systems principle that Woodwell, Wurster, and Isaacson (1967) demonstrated empirically in Science when they traced DDT residues through a marine food chain and showed how slow elimination and trophic cascading produce orders-of-magnitude amplification — a pattern equally applicable wherever inputs persist beyond removal capacity.
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Abstract reports DDT rising with trophic level through three orders of magnitude (0.04 ppm plankton to 75 ppm gull), but states no slow-elimination mechanism or cross-domain generality.
“A systematic sampling of various organisms from the vicinity showed concentrations of DDT increasing with trophic level through more than three orders of magnitude from 0.04 part per million in plankton to 75 parts per million in a ring-billed gull.”
- The construct's portability to non-toxicological domains (software technical debt, institutional norm drift, organizational memory loss) reflects the generality of the underlying kinetic and systems principle that Woodwell, Wurster, and Isaacson (1967) demonstrated empirically in Science when they traced DDT residues through a marine food chain and showed how slow elimination and trophic cascading produce orders-of-magnitude amplification — a pattern equally applicable wherever inputs persist beyond removal capacity.
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