One of the major global concerns in recent times has been the monitoring of environmental
changes to understand the implications of various anthropogenic activities in the post-
industrial era. The Estuarine environment and its associated sub-environments, such as
mudflats and mangroves, play an important role in sediment deposition which acts as a sink
for particle associated contaminants such as heavy metals. Heavy metals contamination in
aquatic environment is of critical concern, due to their accumulation in aquatic habitats and …