Heavy metal biomonitoring and phytoremediation potentialities of aquatic macrophytes in River Nile

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1753-1771

  Fawzy, Manal Ahmed ^a   Badr, Nadia El Sayed ^a   El Khatib, Ahmed ^b   Abo El Kassem, Amany ^b  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

^b Sohag University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Ceratophyllum demersum; Echinochloa pyramidal; Eichhornia crassipes; Heavy metals; Myriophyllum spicatum; Phragmites australis; Typha domingensis

Indexed keywords

CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; ECHINOCHLOA PYRAMIDAL; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; TYPHA DOMINGENSIS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOREMEDIATION; CADMIUM; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; OCEAN HABITATS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

POLLUTION;

CADMIUM; COPPER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; NITRATE; NITRITE; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; WATER; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HEAVY METAL; MACROPHYTE; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER WATER; VASCULAR PLANT;

AQUATIC MACROPHYTE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; ECHINOCHLOA PYRAMIDALIS; EGYPT; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIFESPAN; MACROPHYTE; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; NILE RIVER; NONHUMAN; PH; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT LEAF; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SHOOT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TYPHA DOMINGENSIS; VASCULAR PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALS, HEAVY; PLANTS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EGYPT; NILE RIVER; SOHAG;

CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; ECHINOCHLOA; ECHINOCHLOA PYRAMIDALIS; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; TRACHEOPHYTA; TYPHA DOMINGENSIS;

EID: 84857369266     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2076-9     Document Type: Article

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