Heavy metal in water and aquatic organisms from different intertidal ecosystems, Persian Gulf

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5401-5409

  Rahmanpour, Shirin ^a   Ghorghani, Nasrin Farzaneh ^b   Lotfi Ashtiyani, Seyede Masoumeh ^b  

^a Iranian National Institute for Oceanography INIO   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coral reef; Intertidal ecosystem; Mangrove forest; Muddy habitat; Rocky shore

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FORESTRY; LEAD; NICKEL; REEFS; SHELLFISH;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; CORAL REEF; CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS; MANGROVE FOREST; METAL ACCUMULATION; MUDDY HABITAT; PERSIAN GULF; ROCKY SHORE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BRACHYURA; CORAL REEFS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; INDIAN OCEAN; METALS, HEAVY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84905996269     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3788-4     Document Type: Article

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