Heavy metal mobility in intertidal sediments of the Scheldt estuary: Field monitoring

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2919-2930

  Du Laing, Gijs ^a   Meers, Erik ^a   Dewispelaere, Marjan ^a   Vandecasteele, Bart ^b   Rinklebe, Jörg ^c   Tack, Filip M G ^a   Verloo, Marc G ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Soil and Groundwater Management   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Chloride; Chromium; Copper; Heavy metals; Inundation; Mobility; Nickel; Sulphide; Zinc

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENZYMATIC ACTIVITIES; FIELD CONDITIONS; FIELD MONITORING; FLOODPLAIN SOILS; GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS; GREENHOUSE EXPERIMENTS; INTERTIDAL SEDIMENTS; INUNDATION; METAL MOBILITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MOBILISATION; MOBILITY; NATURAL VARIATIONS; ORGANIC COMPLEXATION; OXIDE REDUCTIONS; PORE WATERS; RIVER SCHELDT; SAMPLING RESOLUTIONS; SAMPLING TIME; SCHELDT ESTUARIES; SEDIMENT LAYERS; SULPHIDE; SULPHIDE CONCENTRATIONS; WATER TABLE LEVELS; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; CADMIUM; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CHROMIUM; GREENHOUSES; METALS; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; WATER; ZINC;

ZINC SULFIDE;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FLOODPLAIN; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HEAVY METAL; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOBILITY; POLLUTION MONITORING; WATER TABLE;

BELGIUM; CADMIUM; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; NETHERLANDS; NICKEL; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS; ZINC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERSCHELDE;

EID: 61649087169     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.12.024     Document Type: Article

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