Historic and ongoing sediment contamination adversely affects estuaries, among the most
productive marine ecosystems in the world. However, all estuaries are not the same, and …

Fine-grained sediments contaminated with complex mixtures of organic and inorganic
chemical contaminants can be toxic in laboratory tests and/or cause adverse impacts to …

Estuaries exhibit a wide array of human impacts that can compromise their ecological
integrity, because of rapid population growth and uncontrolled development in many coastal …

Background Tidal marshes will be threatened by increasing rates of sea-level rise (SLR)
over the next century. Managers seek guidance on whether existing and restored marshes …

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

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge of the open waters of the San Francisco
Estuary. This estuary is well known for the extent to which it has been altered through loss of …

Trace elements, as building blocks of matter, are naturally present in the environment.
However, their extraction, production, use and release by men can lead to the increase of …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are widespread contaminants in the San Francisco
Bay. Several exceedances of water quality criteria raise the possibility that PAH may be …

ABSTRACT The Santos Estuarine System (SES) is a complex of bays, islands, estuarine
channels and rivers located on the Southeast coast of Brazil, in which multiple contaminant …

Sediments from the Atlantic coast of Spain have been studied to evaluate environmental
quality by using an integrated approach including chemical and toxicological data. Sediment …