Ecological risk assessment of metals contamination in the sediment of the Bamdezh wetland, Iran

International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 951-958

  Vaezi, A R ^a   Karbassi, A R ^a   Valavi, Sh ^b   Ganjali, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic proportion; Bamdezh wetland; Metal pollution; Sediment contamination

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BIOACTIVITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; HEAVY METALS; POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC PROPORTION; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; HEAVY METALS POLLUTION; METAL POLLUTION; SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOACTIVITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HEAVY METAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WETLAND;

AHWAZ; IRAN; KHUZESTAN;

AVES;

EID: 84922503778     PISSN: 17351472     EISSN: 17352630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13762-014-0710-0     Document Type: Article

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