Abstract Coastal areas of South China face great challenges due to heavy metal
contamination caused by rapid urbanization and industrialization. In this paper, more than …

Rapid growth of the economy in China has been coupled with increasing environmental
pollution. The coastal and estuarine ecosystems in China are now facing increasing metal …

Contamination of heavy metals in sediment is regarded as a major crisis globally, with a
large SHARE in developing countries, such as Bangladesh. The objective of this study is to …

Coastal and estuarine ecosystems provide habitats for many organisms. Recently, the
estuaries and coastal areas of the East Coast of Bangladesh have become heavily …

Sediment quality in coastal wetlands of the Pearl River Estuary was concerned since the
wetlands were used for land reclamation, aquaculture and wildlife protection, and …

A recently constructed wetland, located in the Venice lagoon watershed, was monitored to
investigate growth dynamics, nutrient and heavy metal shoot accumulation of the two …

The stratified distribution of bacterial and archaeal communities has been detected in many
sediment profiles from various natural environments. A better understanding of microbial …

Concentrations of cadmium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, manganese, nickel, strontium and
zinc were determined in water, sediment and fish tissues (gills, liver, muscle and bones) of …

To explore a comprehensive status of heavy metals in the Taihu Lake, which is one of the
most important waters in China, water and sediment samples were taken throughout the …

Sugarcane-molasses based distillery waste is a threat to environment for its safe disposal
due to complexation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) containing mixture of organic …