Monitoring of heavy metals in wild mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) from the Spanish North-Atlantic coast

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 457-465

  Besada, Victoria ^a   Manuel Andrade, José ^b   Schultze, Fernando ^a   José González, Juan ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coastal pollution; Galicia; Heavy metals; Spain; Wild mussels

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOMONITORING; BIVALVE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HEAVY METAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTION MONITORING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; UPWELLING; WILD POPULATION;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; ATLANTIC COAST [SPAIN]; GALICIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS;

EID: 79951857058     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.04.011     Document Type: Article

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