IMPACT OF HEAVY METALS CONTAMINATION ON SPRING ABUNDANCE OF AQUATIC MACRO-INVERTEBRATES INHABITING LAKE TIMSAH, EGYPT
| Autor: | Marwa I. Saad El-Din, Heba N. Gad El-Hak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Pollution
food.ingredient 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences media_common.quotation_subject Sewage Sphaeroma Wetland 010501 environmental sciences water quality 01 natural sciences Marine pollution Food chain lcsh:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes food heavy metals 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Invertebrate media_common lcsh:TD201-500 geography geography.geographical_feature_category business.industry Ecology aquatic macro-invertebrates Lake Timsah Environmental science Water quality business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Water Security, Vol 3 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2345-0363 |
| Popis: | Lake Timsah, Egypt receives several kinds of pollutants coming from domestic sewage of unconnected areas adjoining the shore and possibly marine pollution. During the last decades heavy metals have become common contaminants of aquatic and wetland environments throughout the world because of human activity and technological development. Increasing attention has been given during the last decade to the protection of marine and freshwater aquatic environment against pollution, both nationally and internationally. Macro-benthoses are the most commonly organisms used as bio-indicators water quality assessment. All of the aquatic macro-invertebrates that were collected from El-Taween station, Lake Timsah, Egypt fell into three major groups that were fairly easy to identify. They were annelids (Polychaeta and Oligochaeta), molluscs (Bivalvia and Gastropoda) and arthropods (Crustacea). The small sized crustacean Sphaeroma. serratum are considered suitable species for aquatic bio-monitoring because they hold an important position in the aquatic food chain responds to many pollutants, easy to culture and has short life cycles. Iron was most important determinant; it appears in high concentrations in both water sample and the tissue of crustacean sample ( S. serratum ). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15544/jws.2017.003 |
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