Trace metals in seagrass, algae and molluscs from an uncontaminated area in the Mediterranean

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 117-126

  Campanella, L ^a   Conti, M E ^a   Cubadda, F ^b   Sucapane, C ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Mediterranean Sea; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

ALGA; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; MOLLUSC; SEAGRASS; TRACE METAL;

ALGA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GASTROPOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WATER STANDARD;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALGAE; GASTROPODA; HALOPHILA; MOLLUSCA; MONODONTA TURBINATA; PADINA; PADINA PAVONICA; PATELLA CAERULEA; PATELLA COERULEA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 0342656169     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(99)00327-9     Document Type: Article

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