Relationships among total recoverable and reactive metals and metalloid in St. Lawrence River sediment: Bioaccumulation by chironomids and implications for ecological risk assessment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 389, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-114

  Desrosiers, Mélanie ^a,b   Gagnon, Christian ^c   Masson, Stéphane ^b   Martel, Louis ^b   Babut, Marc P ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Ministere du Developpement durable de l'Environnement et des Parcs   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Chironomids; Metal availability; Metalloid; Metals; Risk assessment; St. Lawrence River

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS;

CHIRONOMIDS; METAL AVAILABILITY;

METALLOIDS;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; METAL; NICKEL; ZINC;

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLY; METAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METAL EXTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RIVER; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; CHIRONOMIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LARVA; METALS, HEAVY; QUEBEC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; MONTREAL; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 36148990663     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.08.019     Document Type: Article

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