... Buszewski1Department of Environmental Chemistry and Ecoanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 7 Gagarin St, 87-100 Toruń, Poland2Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Environmental ... are used more and more often to determine the level of environmental pollution. Being components of ecosystems, they can provide valuable information on the degree of environmental degradation ... type of pollutants. Effective accumu- lators of pollutants are mollusks, often applied as bioin- dicators of water pollution with heavy metals [55,56]. The properties of some populations of...