Reconstruction of centennial-scale fluxes of chemical elements in the Australian coastal environment using seagrass archives

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 541, Issue , 2016, Pages 883-894

  Serrano, Oscar ^a,b   Davis, Grace ^a   Lavery, Paul S ^a,c   Duarte, Carlos M ^b,d,e   Martinez Cortizas, Antonio ^f   Mateo, Miguel Angel ^a,c   Masqué, Pere ^a,b,g   Arias Ortiz, Ariane ^g   Rozaimi, Mohammad ^a,h   Kendrick, Gary A ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^f Departamento Edafologia y Quimica Agricola   (Spain)

^g INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Contamination; Marine biogeochemical cycles; Posidonia seagrass archive; Recent Holocene; Southern Hemisphere

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LEAD; MANGANESE; MARINE POLLUTION; NICKEL; PLANTS (BOTANY); ZINC;

BASE-LINE CONCENTRATIONS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; RECENT HOLOCENE; SEAGRASSES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; SULFUR; ZINC; METAL; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CHEMICAL ELEMENT; COASTAL ZONE; HOLOCENE; MARINE POLLUTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAGRASS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MINING; NONHUMAN; POSIDONIA; POSIDONIA AUSTRALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAGRASS; WATER CONTAMINATION; ALISMATALES; ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INFORMATION CENTER; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

AUSTRALIA; OYSTER HARBOUR; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

OSTREIDAE; POSIDONIA; POSIDONIA AUSTRALIS;

ALISMATIDAE; ARCHIVES; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METALS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84943328769     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.017     Document Type: Article

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