Littoral diatoms as indicators of recent water and sediment contamination by metals in lakes
| Autor: | Antonella Cattaneo, Sybille Wunsam, Claude Fortin, Yves Couillard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Geologic Sediments
Population Industrial Waste Fresh Water Management Monitoring Policy and Law Mining Abundance (ecology) Metals Heavy Littoral zone education Invertebrate Diatoms Hydrology education.field_of_study biology Water Pollution Quebec Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Sediment Biodiversity General Medicine Contamination biology.organism_classification Oceanography Diatom Benthic zone Environmental science Water Pollutants Chemical Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | J. Environ. Monit.. 13:572-582 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0333 1464-0325 |
| Popis: | We studied the response of benthic diatoms to recent metal contamination in littoral cores collected at 25 sites in 11 lakes situated at different distances from a smelter in the Rouyn-Noranda mining region (Quebec). Diatom response was described in terms of density, diversity, and taxonomic composition of the entire assemblages and as abundance of individual indicator taxa. Metal concentrations were measured in sediment and in the overlying water (as total dissolved and as free-ions). Sediment metal contamination was significantly higher in lakes located |
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