Concentrations of heavy metals in the benthic microgastropods Sermyla riqueti and Stenothyra devalis at the Mai Po Inner Deep Bay Ramsar site of Hong Kong

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1065-1071

  Lai, M Y ^a   Shen, P P ^a   Zhao, Z ^a   Zhou, H ^b   Gu, J D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRAB; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; GASTROPOD; HONG KONG; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SPECIES; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; SNAIL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AVES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; HONG KONG; METALS, HEAVY; SNAILS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 25444489620     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-005-0689-9     Document Type: Article

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