Heavy metals in Changjiang estuarine and offshore sediments: Responding to human activities

Acta Oceanologica Sinica

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 88-101

  Dong, Aiguo ^a   Zhai, Shikui ^a   Matthias, Zabel ^b   Yu, Zenghui ^a   Zhang, Huaijing ^a   Liu, Feifei ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Changjiang (Yangtze) River; Fraction; Heavy metal; Sediment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863705069     PISSN: 0253505X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13131-012-0195-y     Document Type: Article

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