Integrative assessment of coastal pollution: Development and evaluation of sediment quality criteria from chemical contamination and ecotoxicological data

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 448-456

  Bellas, Juan ^a   Nieto, Óscar ^b   Beiras, Ricardo ^c  

^a Instituto Español de Oceanografía Subida a Radio Faro   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Elutriate; Embryo larval bioassay; Paracentrotus lividus; Sediment quality criteria; Sediment toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOASSAY; BIVALVE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COASTAL ZONE; ECHINODERM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO; LARVA; PAH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TOXICITY;

ECHINOIDEA; PARACENTROTUS; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS;

EID: 79951854397     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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