Organic matter compounds as source indicators and tracers for marine pollution in a western Mediterranean coastal zone

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1606-1616

  Amorri, Jalila ^a   Geffroy Rodier, Claude ^b   Boufahja, Fehmi ^a   Mahmoudi, Ezzeddine ^a   Aïssa, Patricia ^a   Ksibi, Mohamed ^c   Amblès, André ^b  

^a University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Lipids; Marine pollution; Mediterranean Sea; n Alkanes; Organic matter; UCM

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALKANE; FATTY ACID; PETROLEUM; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TETRAMETHYLAMMONIUM;

ALKANE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMARKER; COASTAL ZONE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIPID; MARINE POLLUTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC MATTER; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TRACER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEDIMENT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUNISIA; WATER POLLUTANT;

ALCOHOLS; ALKANES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PETROLEUM; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TUNISIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TUNISIA;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 80053960179     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-011-0522-4     Document Type: Article

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