Assessment of sediment quality in Avicennia marina-dominated embayments of Sydney Estuary: The potential use of pneumatophores (aerial roots) as a bio-indicator of trace metal contamination

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 472, Issue , 2014, Pages 1010-1022

  Nath, Bibhash ^a   Birch, Gavin ^a   Chaudhuri, Punarbasu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Bio indicators; Enrichments; Estuarine sediments; Mangrove Avicennia marina; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; ESTUARIES; HISTOLOGY; LEAD; MARINAS; METALS; REFORESTATION; TISSUE; WATER POLLUTION; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; BIO-CONCENTRATION FACTORS; ENRICHMENTS; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT QUALITY GUIDELINES; TRACE METAL; TRACE METAL CONTAMINATIONS;

SEDIMENTS;

ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; LEAD; NICKEL; TRACE ELEMENT; TRACE METAL; WATER; ZINC;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; HEAVY METAL; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MANGROVE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; URBANIZATION; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA MARINA; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOFILTER; COASTAL WATERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARINE SPECIES; ESTUARY; HABITAT; INTERTIDAL ZONE; MANGROVE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBANIZATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AUSTRALIA;

AVICENNIA MARINA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

BIO-INDICATORS; ENRICHMENTS; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; MANGROVE-AVICENNIA MARINA; TRACE METALS;

AVICENNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; PLANT ROOTS; QUEENSLAND; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84890287385     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.096     Document Type: Article

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