Land use changes and metal mobility: Multi-approach study on tidal marsh restoration in a contaminated estuary

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 449, Issue , 2013, Pages 174-183

  Teuchies, Johannes ^a   Singh, Gurmeet ^b   Bervoets, Lieven ^a   Meire, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Managed realignment; Modified BCR procedure; Scheldt estuary; SEM AVS; Sequential extraction

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ESTUARIES; EXTRACTION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; IRON OXIDES; LAND USE; POSITIVE IONS; RESTORATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WETLANDS;

ACID VOLATILE SULPHIDE; MANAGED REALIGNMENT; MARSH RESTORATION; METAL MOBILITY; MODIFIED BCR PROCEDURE; SCHELDT ESTUARY; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; SIMULTANEOUSLY EXTRACTED METAL-ACID VOLATILE SULPHIDE; SIMULTANEOUSLY EXTRACTED METALS; TIDAL MARSHES;

METALS;

ACID VOLATILE SULFIDE; IRON OXIDE; MANGANESE OXIDE; METAL; SULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXTRACTION METHOD; HEAVY METAL; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; MARSH; TRACE METAL; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ESTUARY; LAND USE; MARSH; METAL MOBILITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT;

WESTERSCHELDE;

EID: 84874370429     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.053     Document Type: Article

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