Heavy metal concentrations of the soldier crab (Mictyris brevidactylus) along the inshore area of Changhua, Taiwan

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 153, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 103-109

  Yeh, Hsiao Chien ^a   Chen, I Ming ^a   Chen, Ping ^a   Wang, Wei Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Metal; Pacific oyster; Sizeeffect; Soldier crab

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ENVIRONMENTS; AMBIENT WATERS; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BIO MONITORS; BIOCONCENTRATION FACTORS; BIOMONITORING; COASTAL AREAS; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATIONS; PACIFIC OYSTER; PB CONCENTRATIONS; SIZEEFFECT; SOLDIER CRAB;

CADMIUM; COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LEAD ALLOYS; METALS; NICKEL; POLLUTION; SEAWATER; ZINC;

LEAD;

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; NICKEL; SEA WATER; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRAB; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTION EFFECT; SIZE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; INDICATOR ORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; TAIWAN; TOXICOKINETICS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LEAD; METALS, HEAVY; NICKEL; TAIWAN; ZINC;

ASIA; CHANGHUA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MICTYRIDAE; MICTYRIS BREVIDACTYLUS;

EID: 67349283900     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0340-4     Document Type: Article

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