An assessment of two decades of trace metals monitoring in wild mussels from the Northwest Atlantic and Cantabrian coastal areas of Spain, 1991-2011

Environment International

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-12

  Besada, Victoria ^a   Sericano, José L ^b   Schultze, Fernando ^a  

^a Instituto Español de Oceanografía Subida a Radio Faro   (Spain)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Spain; Temporal trends; Trace metals; Wild mussels

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LEAD;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; NORTHWEST ATLANTIC; PB CONCENTRATION; SPAIN; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TRACE METAL; WILD MUSSEL;

MOLLUSCS;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIVALVE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POLLUTION MONITORING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRACE METAL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEASHORE; SPAIN;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; ATLANTIC COAST [SPAIN]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); BAY OF BISCAY; SPAIN;

SPAIN; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TRACE METALS; WILD MUSSELS;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIVALVIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; METALS, HEAVY; SPAIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84902511659     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.05.024     Document Type: Article

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