Heavy metal pollution of sediments is a growing concern in most parts of the world, and
numerous studies focussed on identifying contaminated sediments by using a range of …

Vessel hull-fouling is increasingly recognised as one of the major vectors for the transfer of
marine non-indigenous species. For hundreds of years, copper (Cu) has been used as a …

Heavy metal concentrations in sediments of the Kurang stream: a principal feeding tributary
of the Rawal Lake Reservoir were investigated using enrichment factor (EF) …

The current investigation of marine water from 30 sites adjacent to stormwater outlets across
the entire Sydney estuary is the first such research in Australia. The number of analytes …

Estuaries are sites of port, industrial, urban and recreational development and also
important to many forms of animal life. They often form sinks for sediment and thus for …

Twelve sediment cores were collected in July 2007 in open waters of western Bohai Bay, the
Port of Tianjin, and the adjacent estuaries of the Haihe and Yongding Rivers. While overall …

Abstract Birch, GF, and Olmos, MA 2008. Sediment-bound heavy metals as indicators of
human influence and biological risk in coastal water bodies.–ICES Journal of Marine …

Anthropogenic disturbance is considered a risk factor in the establishment of non‐
indigenous species (NIS); however, few studies have investigated the role of anthropogenic …

Surface sediment was collected from 124 sites in Sydney Harbour and analysed for the 16
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) listed as priority pollutants by the US EPA, as well …

An internally consistent dataset comprising 103 surficial estuarine sediment samples were
collected from Sydney Harbour, Australia and locations south of Sydney. This paper …