Availability of sediment-absorbed heavy metals to benthos with particular emphasis on deposit-feeding infauna. Final Report.
Date
1978
Authors
Neff, Jerry W., Robert S. Foster, and J. Frank Slowey.
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Publisher
U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station
Abstract
Biological laboratory studies were conducted to evaluate the bioavailability of sediment-absorbed heavy metals to benthic invertebrates and to determine the degree of correlation between tissue concentration and metals concentration in various chemical extractants from the sediments. Animals were exposed to contaminated sediments for up to six weeks.
Description
286 pgs.
Keywords
heavy metals, marine invertebrates, marine sediments