Biomonitoring heavy metals in estuaries: A field comparison of two brown algae species inhabiting upper estuarine reaches

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 121-134

  Barreiro, Rodolfo ^a   Picado, Laura ^b   Real, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fucus ceranoides; Fucus vesiculosus; Heavy metals; NW Spain; Pollution monitoring; Upper estuarine reaches

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; SEAWEED; SEDIMENTS; TISSUE;

BIOMONITORING;

HEAVY METALS;

ALUMINUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; MANGANESE; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; BROWN ALGA; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ESTUARY; FUCUS; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; SALINITY; SEAWEED; SEDIMENT; SPAIN; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

ALGAE, BROWN; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALS, HEAVY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS;

SPAIN;

ALGAE; FUCUS CERANOIDES; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0036128085     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014479612811     Document Type: Article

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