A general integrated ecotoxicological method for marine sediment quality assessment: Application to sediments from littoral ecosystems on Southern Spain's Atlantic coast

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2027-2036

  Usero, José ^a   Morillo, José ^a   El Bakouri, Hicham ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b ABDELMALEK ESSAADI UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic contamination; Bioaccumulation; Integrated sediment quality index; Macrobenthic community; Sediment toxicity; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CONTAMINATION; INTEGRATED CONTROL; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TOXICITY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINATION; INTEGRATED SEDIMENT QUALITY INDEX; MACROBENTHIC COMMUNITY; SEDIMENT TOXICITY; TRACE METALS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

METAL; ORGANIC MATTER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIVALVE; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROBENTHOS; MARINE SEDIMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SUBLETHAL EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENTHOS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIVALVE; CALCULATION; COASTAL WATERS; CONTAMINATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LETHALITY; MACROFAUNA; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; METALS; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANDALUCIA; ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; ATLANTIC COAST [SPAIN]; CARRERAS RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; GUADIANA RIVER; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; ODIEL RIVER; PIEDRAS RIVER; RIO TINTO [(RVR) HUELVA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

BIVALVIA; CHAMELEA GALLINA;

EID: 56949083628     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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