Bioaccumulation of aluminium and iron in the food chain of Lake Loskop, South Africa

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 134-141

  Oberholster, Paul J ^a,b   Myburgh, Jan G ^b   Ashton, Pete J ^a   Coetzee, Jan J ^c   Botha, Anna Maria ^d  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c Loskop Dam Nature Reserve   (South Africa)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aluminium; Bioaccumulation; Fish yellow body fat; Food chain; Iron; Spirogyra fluviatilis

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; IRON;

ALGA; ALUMINUM; BIOACCUMULATION; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; IRON; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PH; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER COLUMN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; GILL; HEART; INTESTINE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIVER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MICROPHYTOBENTHOS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; PH; PHYTOPLANKTON; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPIROGYRA; SPIROGYRA ADANATA; SPIROGYRA FLUVIATILIS; STOMACH; TOXICOKINETICS;

ALUMINUM; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; GILLS; IRON; LAKES; PHYTOPLANKTON; SOUTH AFRICA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

LOSKOP DAM; MPUMALANGA; SOUTH AFRICA;

ALGAE; AMPHIBIA; GOMPHIDAE; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS; PISCES; SPIROGYRA; SPIROGYRA FLUVIATILIS;

EID: 80655147018     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2011.08.018     Document Type: Article

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