Arsenic rich iron plaque on macrophyte roots - an ecotoxicological risk?

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 946-954

  Taggart, M A ^a,b   Mateo, R ^b   Charnock, J M ^c   Bahrami, F ^c   Green, A J ^d   Meharg, A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^c DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Food chain transfer; Herbivorous wildlife; Metalloids; Phytoremediation; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC CONCENTRATIONS; ARSENIC CONTAMINATIONS; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RISKS; ELEVATED LEVELS; FOOD CHAIN TRANSFER; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTS; GREYLAG GOOSES; HERBIVOROUS WILDLIFE; IRON PLAQUES; MACROPHYTE; MACROPHYTES; PHYTOREMEDIATION; SCANNING ELECTRONS; SCIRPUS; WETLAND HABITATS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOREMEDIATION; METALLOIDS; NONMETALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; IRON;

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; HERBIVORE; IRON; MACROPHYTE; MINE WASTE; PHYTOREMEDIATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROOT; WETLAND;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICOLOGY; HERBIVORE; MACROPHYTE; RHIZOME; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY;

ARSENIC; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; PLANT ROOTS; RISK; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPAIN;

ANSER; SCHOENOPLECTUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 58349085562     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.10.020     Document Type: Article

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