Have the bioavailabilities of trace metals to a suite of biomonitors changed over three decades in SW England estuaries historically affected by mining?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1589-1602

  Rainbow, P S ^a   Kriefman, S ^a   Smith, B D ^a   Luoma, S N ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Biomonitoring; Sediment; Trace metals; Water

Indexed keywords

BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOAVAILABLE METALS; BIOMONITORING; BIOMONITORS; DEPOSIT FEEDER; DISSOLVED METALS; ENGLAND; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; INDUSTRIAL SOURCES; MACRO-ALGAE; METAL BIOAVAILABILITY; METAL CONTAMINATION; MINE WASTES; MINING ACTIVITIES; SEDIMENTS AND WATERS; TOXIC METALS; TRACE METAL; TRACE METALS; WATER COLUMNS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTAMINATION; COPPER; DEPOSITS; ESTUARIES; FEEDING; METALS; POLLUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILVER; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

MARINE POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; COPPER; LEAD; SILVER; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOMONITORING; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; MINE WASTE; MINING; POLLUTANT SOURCE; REMEDIATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TRACE METAL; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; ASCOPHYLLUM; ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; MINING; MOLLUSC; NEREIS DIVERSICOLOR; NONHUMAN; POLYCHAETA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROBICULARIA PLANA; SEDIMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; BIVALVIA; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS; MINING; POLYCHAETA; SEAWATER; SEAWEED; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CORNWALL [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; RESTRONGUET CREEK; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; NEANTHES DIVERSICOLOR; SCROBICULARIA PLANA;

EID: 79951812488     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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