Do acid volatile sulfides (AVS) influence the accumulation of sediment-bound metals to benthic invertebrates under natural field conditions?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4510-4516

  De Jonge, Maarten ^a   Dreesen, Freja ^a   De Paepe, Josefina ^a   Blust, Ronny ^a   Bervoets, Lieven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID VOLATILE SULFIDES; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; CHIRONOMIDS; CHIRONOMUS; CLAY CONTENT; LAB CONDITIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; LOWLAND RIVERS; METAL ACCUMULATION; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; NATURAL FIELD CONDITIONS; NATURAL SEDIMENTS; ORGANIC MATTER; PORE WATERS; SEDIMENT CHARACTERISTIC; SEDIMENT-BOUND METALS; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CLAY MINERALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LEAD; LINEAR REGRESSION; METALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TOXICITY; WATER; WATER ANALYSIS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; LEAD; METAL; NICKEL; ORGANIC MATTER; SULFIDE; SURFACE WATER; ZINC;

BENTHOS; BIOACCUMULATION; CLAY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; INVERTEBRATE; LEAD; POREWATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SULFIDE; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLAY; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WORM;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; LARVA; METALS; SULFIDES; VOLATILIZATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 67449116357     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8034945     Document Type: Article

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