Remediation of a watershed contaminated by heavy metals: A 2-year field biomonitoring of periphytic biofilms

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 425, Issue , 2012, Pages 242-253

  Arini, Adeline ^a,b   Feurtet Mazel, Agnès ^a   Morin, Soizic ^b   Maury Brachet, Régine ^a   Coste, Michel ^b   Delmas, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Diatoms; Periphytic biofilms; Recovery; Remediation; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATES; BIOMONITORING; COLONISATION; DIATOM COMMUNITIES; DIATOMS; GLASS SLIDES; INDUSTRIAL CONTAMINATION; INDUSTRIAL SITES; METAL ACCUMULATION; METAL CONTAMINATION; NATURAL SUBSTRATES; TAXONOMIC COMPOSITION;

BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; CONTAMINATION; GLASS; HEAVY METALS; INDUSTRY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTION; RECOVERY; REMEDIATION; SUBSTRATES; WATERSHEDS; ZINC;

BIOFILMS;

AMMONIA; CADMIUM; CHLOROPHYLL A; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; HEAVY METAL; NITRATE; NITRITE; PHOSPHORUS; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; CADMIUM; DIATOM; HEAVY METAL; PERIPHYTON; REMEDIATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED; ZINC;

ALGAL COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOREMEDIATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATOM; EOLIMNA MINIMA; FIELD STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHYTON; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

BIOFILMS; CADMIUM; CHLOROPHYLL; DIATOMS; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FRANCE; METALS, HEAVY; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

AVEYRON; FRANCE; MIDI-PYRENEES; RIOU MORT RIVER;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; EOLIMNA MINIMA;

EID: 84859988449     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.02.067     Document Type: Article

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