A combined chemical and biological assessment of industrial contamination in an estuarine system in Kerala, India

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 485-486, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 348-362

  Dsikowitzky, Larissa ^a   Nordhaus, Inga ^b   Sujatha, C H ^c   Akhil, P S ^c   Soman, Kunjupilai ^d   Schwarzbauer, Jan ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^c Department of Physics   (India)

^d Vakkom Moulavi Foundation Trust ^*  (India)

Author keywords

DDT metabolites; Diversity; Emerging contaminants; Industrial wastewaters; Macrobenthic invertebrates; Organochlorine pesticides

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CONTAMINATION; FORESTRY; INDUSTRY; METABOLITES; PESTICIDES; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER; WATER TREATMENT;

DDT-METABOLITES; DIVERSITY; EMERGING CONTAMINANT; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; MACROBENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES;

EFFLUENTS;

BENZOTHIAZOLE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIBENZYLAMINE; DICYCLOHEXYLAMINE DERIVATIVE; ENDOSULFAN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE;

BACKWATER; DDT; EFFLUENT; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FILTER FEEDER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INVERTEBRATE; MACROBENTHOS; METABOLITE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRACE ELEMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; ECOSYSTEM; EFFLUENT; ESTUARY; FILTER FEEDER; INDIA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METAL INDUSTRY; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND;

COCHIN ESTUARY; INDIA; KERALA;

DDT-METABOLITES; DIVERSITY; EMERGING CONTAMINANTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; MACROBENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES;

ECOSYSTEM; ENDOSULFAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INDIA; METALS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84903566134     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.03.034     Document Type: Article

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