Determination of sediment metal background concentrations and enrichment in marine environments–a critical review

GF Birch - Science of the total environment, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

A review of chemical-based sediment quality assessment methodologies for the marine environment

GF Birch - Marine pollution bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
This review of 19 chemical approaches used in assessing sediment quality are classified
into empirical, mechanistic and sediment quality indices (SQI) groups. Empirical sediment …

Predicting the ecological quality status of marine environments from eDNA metabarcoding data using supervised machine learning

T Cordier, P Esling, F Lejzerowicz, J Visco… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Monitoring biodiversity is essential to assess the impacts of increasing anthropogenic
activities in marine environments. Traditionally, marine biomonitoring involves the sorting …

Supervised machine learning outperforms taxonomy‐based environmental DNA metabarcoding applied to biomonitoring

T Cordier, D Forster, Y Dufresne… - Molecular ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity monitoring is the standard for environmental impact assessment of
anthropogenic activities. Several recent studies showed that high‐throughput amplicon …

Comparison of pollution indices for the assessment of heavy metals in the sediments of seaports of NSW, Australia

S Jahan, V Strezov - Marine pollution bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
Sediments samples from six seaports of NSW, Australia were analysed for the presence of
metal contamination. Geoaccumulation index (Igeo), enrichment factor (EF), pollution load …

Environmental monitoring through protist next‐generation sequencing metabarcoding: Assessing the impact of fish farming on benthic foraminifera communities

J Pawlowski, P Esling, F Lejzerowicz… - Molecular ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The measurement of species diversity represents a powerful tool for assessing the impacts
of human activities on marine ecosystems. Traditionally, the impact of fish farming on the …

Occurrence of heavy metals in sediment and their bioaccumulation in sentinel crab (Macrophthalmus depressus) from highly impacted coastal zone

NU Saher, AS Siddiqui - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
The current study aimed to investigate the eight heavy metals (Fe, Cu, Zn, Cr, Ni, Co, Pb,
and Cd) occurrence and risk assessment in the sediment and sentinel crab …

A review and critical assessment of sedimentary metal indices used in determining the magnitude of anthropogenic change in coastal environments

GF Birch - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The current critical review examines the application of 11 frequently used sedimentary metal
indices in their ability to accurately assess the magnitude of human-induced change …

Particle-laden droplet-driven triboelectric nanogenerator for real-time sediment monitoring using a deep learning method

L Yang, Y Wang, Z Zhao, Y Guo, S Chen… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Continuous information on the suspended sediment in the water system is critical in various
areas of industry and hydrological studies. However, because of the high variation of …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in coastal sediment of Klang Strait, Malaysia: distribution pattern, risk assessment and sources

SB Tavakoly Sany, R Hashim, A Salleh, M Rezayi… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Concentration, source, and ecological risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were
investigated in 22 stations from surface sediments in the areas of anthropogenic pollution in …