Arsenic speciation in polychaetes (Annelida) and sediments from the intertidal mudflat of Sundarban mangrove wetland, India

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-25

  Watts, M J ^a   Barlow, T S ^a   Button, M ^b   Sarkar, S K ^c   Bhattacharya, B D ^c   Alam, Md Aftab ^c   Gomes, A ^c  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Arsenic speciation; Polychaetes; Sediment; Sundarban

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MANGROVE; MUDFLAT; POLYCHAETE; SEDIMENT; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TOXICITY; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POLYCHAETA; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDIA; POLYCHAETA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

INDIA; SUNDARBANS;

ANNELIDA; LUMBRINERIS; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 84871655527     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-012-9471-1     Document Type: Article

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