Letter to the editor re: Villares et al., 2007; on the impact of the Prestige oil spill on the levels of vanadium and other trace elements along the coast of Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 399, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 216-218

  Prego, Ricardo ^a   Santos Echeandía, Juan ^a   Cobelo García, Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Galician Rias; NW Iberian Peninsula; Prestige oil spill; Trace elements contamination; Vanadium

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM;

COASTAL WATERS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUCUS; LETTER; OIL SPILL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ACCIDENTS; ANIMALS; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUEL OILS; NICKEL; PUBLICATION BIAS; SEAWATER; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VANADIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 44749090341     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.04.002     Document Type: Letter

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