Trace element contamination severity of coastal waters: A first bioassessment at the scale of the whole Mediterranean Sea

Abstract excerpt

Human activities generate large volumes of waste that supply marine coastal environments in pathogens, organic matter, nutrients and toxicants. Among the wide range of toxicants are trace elements. Since the latter are toxic for aquatic organisms from threshold levels and as they are therefore likely to cause multiple damage to the population, the community and the ecosystem levels, their environmental occurrence...

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• China
• Environment
• Fisheries
• Genetic Variation
• Mediterranean Sea
• Metals, Heavy
• Models, Theoretical
• Water Pollution

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Literature Corpus work

6e08550a-c629-5f3b-bd69-84f6a41a705c

DOI

10.7287/peerj.preprints.1066v1