Integrated assessment of heavy metal contamination in sediments from a coastal industrial basin, NE China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Li, Xiaoyu ^a,b   Liu, Lijuan ^a   Wang, Yugang ^a   Luo, Geping ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Yang, Xiaoliang ^c   Gao, Bin ^d   He, Xingyuan ^b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BAY; CHINA; COASTAL WATERS; ESTUARY; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HEAVY METAL POISONING; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

BAYS; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDUSTRY; METALS, HEAVY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84863102910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039690     Document Type: Article

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