An assessment of metal contamination along the Irish coast using the seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum (Fucales, Phaeophyceae)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 293-303

  Morrison, Liam ^a   Baumann, Hans A ^a   Stengel, Dagmar B ^a  

^a Environmental Change Institute ECI   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Baseline; Biomonitoring; Intertidal sediments; Lithium normalised; Metal contamination; Seaweeds

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COBALT; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; LITHIUM; SEDIMENTS;

BIOMONITORING; INTERTIDAL SEDIMENTS; SEAWEEDS;

CHROMIUM;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; LEAD; LITHIUM; METAL; PRISTINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGA; BASELINE CONDITIONS; BIOMONITORING; COASTAL WATER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPPER; DOMESTIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LITHIUM; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWEED; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BROWN ALGA; COASTAL WATERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DOMESTIC WASTE; DYNAMICS; GEOLOGY; IRELAND; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONHUMAN; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT GROWTH; SEA POLLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWEED; WATER CONTAMINATION; WINTER;

CONNACHT; CORK HARBOUR; COUNTY CORK; COUNTY GALWAY; EURASIA; EUROPE; GALWAY [COUNTY GALWAY]; IRELAND; MUNSTER [IRELAND]; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM; FUCALES; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 39749170582     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.06.052     Document Type: Article

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