Nine heavy metals sampled from water, sediments, and aquatic organisms in the newly-
formed wetlands of the Yellow River Delta (YRD) of China were analyzed to evaluate their …

Heavy metals are a serious hazard for aquatic ecosystems and human health. They
negatively affect aquatic life functioning through accumulation resulting physiological/growth …

Understanding the mechanism of trophic transfer of heavy metal through the aquatic food
web is critical to ecological exposure risk assessments in mangrove ecosystems. Zhanjiang …

One aspect of environmental degradation in coastal areas is pollution from toxic metals,
which are persistent and are bioaccumulated by marine organisms, with serious public …

Brackish habitats are considered important for the facultatively catadromous European eel,
but knowledge of eel habitat use strategies and the consequences on their condition …

Transfer of trace metals into fish of commercial value poses a public health concern.
Therefore, sediments, invertebrates, and fish from three sampling sites in the Rufiji estuary …

The accumulation of cadmium, copper and zinc and the induction of metallothioneins (MT) in
liver of three freshwater fish species was studied. Gudgeon (Gobio gobio), roach (Rutilus …

Historically abundant and widespread, populations of Atlantic eels have suffered a sharp
decline in recent decades, in the ranges 40–80% and 90–99% for American and European …

Abundance and growth of the European eel from six small northern French estuaries during
their growth phase were examined to explore variations according to the local habitat …

The use of some fish parasites as bioindicators of heavy metal pollution has been
demonstrated as particularly adequate due to their capacity of bioconcentration. This study …