As employed here, the term biomonitors denotes those aquatic species which accumulate
trace metals in their tissues and may therefore be analysed to monitor the bioavailability of …

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 …

Algae are an important component of aquatic benthic ecosystems because they reflect the
health of their environment through their density, abundance, and diversity. This …

Rocky shores occur at the interface of the land and sea. Typically they are open ecosystems,
with steep environmental gradients. Their accessibility to man has rendered them …

Rocky shores provide a harsh environment for marine organisms andwe briefly discuss
natural sources of variation in community structure beforeconsidering anthropogenic …

Although native macroalgae have been used for biomonitoring purposes since the 1950s, a
standardized protocol that would enable widespread implementation of the technique has …

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a synthesis of the very extensive literature
pertaining to the factors that influence the uptake, accumulation and handling of trace metals …

All pollutants can reach the aquatic environments and the levels of heavy metals in upper
members of the food web like fish can reach values many times higher than those found in …

We measured the uptake kinetics of four metals (Cd, Cr, Se and Zn) in two marine
macroalgae (the green alga Ulva lactuca and the red alga Gracilaria blodgettii). Metal …

Ulva rigida (C. Agardht) was collected from the Palude della Rosa (lagoon of Venice), a
particular area characterized by a salinity gradient, from December 1991 to June 1993 …