Spatial distribution and human contamination quantification of trace metals and phosphorus in the sediments of Chaohu Lake, a eutrophic shallow lake, China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2105-2118

  Liu, Enfeng ^a   Shen, Ji ^a   Yang, Xiangdong ^a   Zhang, Enlou ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chaohu Lake; Human contamination; Phosphorus; Sediments; Source; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOURCES; ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINATION; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BACKGROUND LEVEL; BACKGROUND VALUE; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; LAKE AREAS; NON-POINT SOURCE; PARENT MATERIALS; PB AND CU; POINT SOURCES; POTENTIAL SOURCES; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; SEDIMENT COMPOSITION; SEDIMENT QUALITY GUIDELINES; SEWAGE SOURCES; SHALLOW LAKES; SOURCE; SPATIAL DEGRADATION; SPATIAL DIVERSITY; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; THRESHOLD EFFECT; TRACE METAL;

CATCHMENTS; CONTAMINATION; COPPER; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; LEAD; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEWAGE; SOIL POLLUTION; THERMOELECTRICITY; ZINC;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; NICKEL; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM; TRACE METAL; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BEDROCK; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PARENT MATERIAL; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRACE METAL;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LAKE; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; LAKES; PHOSPHORUS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANHUI; CHAOHU LAKE; CHINA;

EID: 84862872553     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2103-x     Document Type: Article

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