Heavy metal contamination is a globally recognized environmental issue, threatening
human life very seriously. Increasing population and high demand for food resulted in …

Abstract 'Background'is the concentration of metals in pristine sediment, unaltered by human
activity and 'enrichment'is the extent present-day sediment metal concentrations exceed pre …

Background The concentration of heavy metals and their spatial distribution in surface
sediments collected from the Thondi coast, Palk Bay, South India were analysed in this …

Ria de Vigo is a funnel-shaped, fault-bounded coastal embayment in Galicia, NW Spain.
There are a number of important centres of population and industrial activity along its …

The geochemistry of metals in the harbor and coastal zone of the town of Mytilene (island of
Lesvos, Aegean Sea, Greece) was studied after normalization of the metal data to a …

Surface sediments from the Tees Estuary were analysed for grain size, organic carbon
content and metal concentrations. Metal speciation was determined by sequential extraction …

Seasonal variation in the contents of different metals (Al, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni and Zn) in two
genera of macroalgae, Ulva and Enteromorpha, was studied at 22 sites on the northwest …

The 18 Galician Rias, comprising 25% of the Iberian Peninsula coastline, form a unique
system within the European continental Atlantic coast and provide a useful reference area …

Sediments from three Galician Rias were tested for toxicity using sea-urchin and ascidian
sediment elutriate embryo–larval bioassays. Trace metal contents in seawater, sediments …

The concentrations of heavy metals and organic carbon in sediment of the Homa Lagoon
which is one of the most productive lagoons and commercial important active fish trap in the …