Arsenic cycling in marine systems: Degradation of arsenosugars to arsenate in decomposing algae, and preliminary evidence for the formation of recalcitrant arsenic

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-51

  Navratilova, Jana ^a   Raber, Georg ^b   Fisher, Steven J ^c,d   Francesconi, Kevin A ^b  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c WESTERN AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES AND MARINE RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^d Western Australian Department of Water   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENATE; ARSENIC; BIODEGRADATION; BROWN ALGA; CATION; COASTAL ZONE; DECOMPOSITION; EXTRACTION METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE POLLUTION; METHANOL; SEAWATER; TIME SERIES;

ALGAE; ECKLONIA RADIATA; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 80051749844     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN10107     Document Type: Article

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