Toxic metals in aquatic plants surviving in surface water polluted by copper mining industry

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 64-69

  Samecka Cymerman, A ^a   Kempers, A J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Copper mining; Heavy metals; Myriophyllum spicatum; Potamogeton pectinatus

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; ELEMENT; LEAD; METAL; SURFACE WATER; ZINC;

AQUATIC PLANT; BIOACCUMULATION; COPPER; MACROPHYTE; MINING INDUSTRY; SURFACE WATER; TOXICITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EUROPE; MACROPHYTE; MEASUREMENT; MINING; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLAND; POTAMOGETONACEAE; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE; SMELTER; SOLID WASTE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ANGIOSPERMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS; MINING; POLAND; POTAMOGETONACEAE; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; DOLNOSLASKIE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LEGNICA; POLAND;

MYRIOPHYLLUM; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON; STUCKENIA PECTINATUS;

EID: 4644265929     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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