Ecotoxicological risk assessment linked to infilling quarries with treated dredged seaport sediments

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 431, Issue , 2012, Pages 375-384

  Perrodin, Yves ^a   Donguy, Gilles ^a   Bazin, Christine ^b   Volatier, Laurence ^a   Durrieu, Claude ^a   Bony, Sylvie ^a,c   Devaux, Alain ^a,c   Abdelghafour, Mohammed ^b   Moretto, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b INSAVALOR   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecosystems; Ecotoxicological risk assessment; Pollutants; Quarries; Seaports; Sediments

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; COASTAL AREA; COMPLEX MANAGEMENT; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DREDGED SEDIMENTS; DUAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL RISKS; ECOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; HIGH COSTS; INFILLING; INLAND ECOSYSTEM; POLLUTANTS; POLLUTED SITES; SEAPORTS; SEDIMENT DEPOSITS; TREATED SEDIMENTS; TREATMENT METHODS;

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITS; DREDGING; ECOSYSTEMS; PORTS AND HARBORS; QUARRIES; RISK PERCEPTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TOXICITY; WASTE TREATMENT;

SEDIMENTS;

ACENAPHTHYLENE; ANTHRACENE; ARSENIC; BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[B]FLUORANTHENE; BENZO[GHI]PERYLENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; FLUORANTHENE; FLUORENE; INDENOLOL; LEAD; NAPHTHALENE; NICKEL; PHENANTHRENE; PYRENE; TIN; ZINC;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; DREDGING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; MARINE SEDIMENT; QUARRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FRANCE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

FRANCE;

EID: 84862192288     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.05.069     Document Type: Article

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