What is biomagnification?

Biomagnification is the process in which toxins are concentrated in an organism as larger animals continue to eat the smaller animals. this process moves toxins up the food chain to larger organisms and is of particular concern with regard to concentrating dangerous toxins in large species.


in general, the use of biomagnification is associated with dangerous toxins and chemicals that are released because of human action. Biomagnification can be broken into two categories: persistent organic pollutants and metal. Both of these groups are not easily degraded by organisms.persistant organic pollutants are novel organic substances made by humans.
 Metals can not be degraded because they are an element.
the example of biomagnification is the accumulation of insecticide DDT or any other PAHs and metal in zooplanktons that zooplanktons consumed by small fishes then DDT concentration moves to high in small fishes than zooplankton
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Fig: biomagnification in the aquatic ecosystem.

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