Influence of a salt marsh plant (Halimione portulacoides) on the concentrations and potential mobility of metals in sediments

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 403, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 188-195

  Almeida, C Marisa R ^a   Mucha, Ana P ^a   Bordalo, A A ^a,b   Vasconcelos, M Teresa S D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Copper complexing ligands; Estuarine sediments; Rhizosphere; Sediment elutriates; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COPPER; COPPER ALLOYS; ESTUARIES; KETONES; LANDFORMS; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; LIGANDS; METALS; PHOTORESISTS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); WATER; WETLANDS; ZINC;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; AQUEOUS PHASE; COMPLEXING; ELSEVIER (CO); IN-SITU; LIVING ORGANISMS; METAL BIOAVAILABILITY; METAL CONTENTS; METALS CONCENTRATIONS; ORGANIC LIGANDS; PORE WATERS; POTENTIAL MOBILITY; POTENTIAL RISKS; RE-SUSPENSION; SALT MARSHES; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM BEHAVIOUR; WATER COLUMN (WC);

SEWAGE LAGOONS;

CADMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; ZINC;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELEMENT MOBILITY; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; RESUSPENSION; RHIZOSPHERE; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SHRUB; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRACE METAL;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT MARSH; SEDIMENT; WATER ANALYSIS;

AMARANTHACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; PLANT ROOTS; PORTUGAL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WETLANDS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SADO ESTUARY; SETUBAL [PORTUGAL]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

HALIMIONE PORTULACOIDES;

EID: 47849131136     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.044     Document Type: Article

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