Monitoring of marine mucilage formation in Italian seas investigated by infrared spectroscopy and independent component analysis

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 6025-6036

  Mecozzi, Mauro ^a   Pietroletti, Marco ^a   Scarpiniti, Michele ^b   Acquistucci, Rita ^c   Conti, Marcelo Enrique ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^d Sapienza University of Rome   (Italy)

Author keywords

Humification; Independent component analysis; Marine mucilage

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION PROCESS; ALGAL CELLS; ALGAL SAMPLES; DEGRADATION REACTION; FT-IR SPECTRUM; FTIR; HUMIFICATION; INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS; MACROAGGREGATES; MARINE MUCILAGE; MUCILAGE FORMATION; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; POLAR COMPOUNDS; RECALCITRANT ORGANIC MATTER; SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

ADHESIVES; AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PEPTIDES;

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID; LIPID; MONOSACCHARIDE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; ORGANIC MATTER;

AGGREGATION; ALGA; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HUMIFICATION; MUCILAGE; ORGANIC MATTER; POLYMERIZATION; SEAWATER;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ITALY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE MUCILAGE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUCILAGE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; SEA;

ADHESIVES; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROALGAE; SEAWATER; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; WATER POLLUTION;

ALGAE;

EID: 84866532219     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2400-4     Document Type: Article

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