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Which term refers to how mercury content increases up a food chain, concentrating in higher level predators?

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Because mercury is a persistent substance, it can build up, or bioaccumulate, in living organisms, inflicting increasing levels of harm on higher order species such as predatory fish and fish eating birds and mammals through a process know as biomagnification
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Biomagnification

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This is the term being referenced!

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