Monitoring of organic compounds and trace metals during a dredging episode in the Göta Älv Estuary (SW Sweden) using caged mussels

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 181, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 265-279

  Bellas, Juan ^a,c   Ekelund, Rolf ^a   Halldórsson, Halldór Pálmar ^b   Berggren, Matz ^a   Granmo, Åke ^a  

^a GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Dredging operations; Metals; Monitoring; Mytilus edulis; Organic pollutants

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CONTAMINATION; DREDGING; FISH; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; TISSUE;

DREDGING OPERATIONS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING (MDS); MYTILUS EDULIS;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TRACE METAL;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONTAMINATION; DREDGING; FISH; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; TISSUE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOASSAY; BIOMONITORING; BIVALVE; DREDGING; GENOTOXICITY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION MONITORING; TRACE METAL;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMET ASSAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENOTOXICITY; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; MUSSEL; ORGANIC POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; SWEDEN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GOTA ALV ESTUARY; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; VASTRA GOTALAND;

MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 34247326073     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-006-9298-4     Document Type: Article

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