Abstract The upper Clark Fork River, above Flathead River, is contaminated with large
amounts of As, Cd, Cu, Pb, Mn, and Zn ores from past mining activities. The contaminated …

It is difficult to determine cause-effect relationships resulting from mixtures of chemical
contaminants found in natural sediments. However, such relationships must involve …

Tens of thousands of synthetic substances are in existence today and hundreds of new
compounds are being introduced every year. Because of the complexity of the physico …

Stanislav Patin is a Doctor of Science (Biology, Chemistry); Professor (Ecology); and Head
Scientist at the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) …

An index was developed for estuarine macrobenthos in the Gulf of Mexico that discriminated
between areas with degraded environmental conditions and areas with undegraded or …

Updated guidance is provided for presenting and interpreting individual Sediment Quality
Triad components (Triad: chemistry, toxicity and community structure), and for the integration …

Abstract Trace element (As, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, V and Zn) enrichment trends during the past
century, were assessed in thirteen 210 Pb-dated sediment cores from the southern Gulf of …

Meiofaunal and macroinfaunal communities around three gas platforms on the continental
shelf (29–157 m water depths) in the Gulf of Mexico were assessed for sublethal or …

Integrative assessments are defined as investigations involving attempts to integrate
measures of environmental quality to make an overall assessment of the status of the …

This work reports on the state of the art of the bioindicators used to assess environmental
quality (regarding chemical pollutant impacts) in the Venice lagoon. After a brief description …