Field assessment of sediment toxicities within a subtropical estuarine wetland in Hong Kong, using a local gastropod (Sermyla tornatella)

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 494-498

  Liang, Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; METAL; NICKEL; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOACCUMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTUARY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GASTROPOD; GROWTH; HONG KONG; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HONG KONG; SEASONS; SNAILS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WETLANDS;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 34548047694     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-007-9080-3     Document Type: Article

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