The role of sediment-feeding oligochaete Tubifex on the availability of trace metals in sediment pore waters as determined by diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT)

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 71-76

  Wegener, Jan Willem M ^a   van den Berg, Gerard A ^b   Stroomberg, Gerard J ^c   van Velzen, Martin J M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b INST INLAND WATER MGMT WASTE W   (Netherlands)

^c AquaSense Ltd   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Available metal fraction; Cadmium; Concentration; Copper; Diffusive gradients in thin films; Oligochaetes; Pore water; Sediment; Tubifex; Zinc

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOAVAILABILITY; POREWATER; SEDIMENT CORE; TRACE METAL;

OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); TUBIFEX;

EID: 0036345133     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02987874     Document Type: Article

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