Assessing heavy metal pollution in the water level fluctuation zone of China's Three Gorges Reservoir using geochemical and soil microbial approaches

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 231-240

  Ye, Chen ^a,b   Li, Siyue ^a   Zhang, Yulong ^a,b   Tong, Xunzhang ^a   Zhang, Quanfa ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Geochemical approach; Heavy metal; Soil microbial community structure; Water level fluctuation zone

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; ECOLOGICAL REMEDIATION; GEO-ACCUMULATION INDEX; GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; NATURAL RECOVERY; NATURAL ROCKS; POLLUTANT SOURCES; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR; TRAFFIC EXHAUSTS; WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATION;

ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEAVY METALS; LEAD; MANGANESE; METAL RECOVERY; MICROORGANISMS; REVEGETATION; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER LEVELS; WEATHERING;

WATER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GEOACCUMULATION INDEX; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEAVY METAL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING; REVEGETATION; SOIL BIOTA; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER LEVEL; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHINA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; REVEGETATION; SOIL MICROFLORA; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY; WEATHERING;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALS, HEAVY; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

CHINA; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR;

EID: 84871974558     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2547-7     Document Type: Article

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