Arsenic (As) causes cancer and non-cancer health effects in humans. Previous research
revealed As concentrations over 200 μg g− 1 in lake sediments in the south-central Puget …

In this study, multiple types of samples, including soils, plants, litter and soil invertebrates,
were collected from a former arsenic (As) mine in China. The total As concentrations in the …

Arsenic can accumulate in freshwater biota, sometimes reaching potentially harmful levels.
However, the toxicity of arsenic strongly depends on which arsenic species are present …

As a result of their industrial past, legacy cites often have elevated concentrations of soil
heavy metal contamination. Metal pollution can have negative and prolonged ecosystem …

Lake sediments store metal contaminants from historic pesticide and herbicide use and
mining operations. Historical regional smelter operations in the Puget Sound lowlands have …

This is the ninth Atomic Spectrometry Update (ASU) to focus on advances in elemental
speciation and covers a period of approximately 12 months from December 2015. This ASU …

In marine ecosystems, arsenic (As) and total mercury (T-Hg) represent two of the major
pollutants, particularly in fish due to their ecology and the affinity of these metal (loid) s with …

Birds are at a higher level in the food chain; however, the potential bioaccumulation and
biotransformation of arsenic (As) in birds in As mines has rarely been studied. In this study …

Montezuma Well is an unusual fishless, spring-fed, desert wetland in central Arizona. Water
in the wetland is naturally enriched with> 100 µg/l dissolved geogenic arsenic (As) and …

Aquatic hyphomycetes are fungi with a fundamental ecological role in forested streams.
These organisms are responsible for cycling of nutrients in aquatic environments. However …