Distribution, ecological risk assessment and source identification of heavy metals in surface sediments of Huixian karst wetland, China

H Xiao, A Shahab, J Li, B Xi, X Sun, H He… - … and Environmental Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, heavy metals including Cd, Pb, Zn, Mn, Cu, Ni, Cr, As, and Hg, in the surface
sediment (0–10 cm) of the Huixian wetland in a karst region were investigated in terms of …

Surface sediment properties and heavy metal pollution assessment in the Pearl River Estuary, China

G Zhao, S Ye, H Yuan, X Ding, J Wang - Environmental Science and …, 2017 - Springer
Grain size and concentrations of heavy metals (arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr),
copper (Cu), mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), and zinc (Zn)) of 148 surface sediments and activities …

Surface sediment properties and heavy metal contamination assessment in river sediments of the Pearl River Delta, China

G Zhao, S Ye, H Yuan, X Ding, J Wang, EA Laws - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
Concentrations of arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), mercury (Hg),
lead (Pb), and zinc (Zn), grain sizes, and concentrations of organic carbon (Corg) were …

Positive matrix factorization receptor model and dynamics in fingerprinting of potentially toxic metals in coastal ecosystem sediments at a large scale (Persian Gulf …

AR Jafarabadi, E Raudonytė-Svirbutavičienė, AS Toosi… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Effective pollution control and remediation strategies are the key to providing a major
progress in conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity. For the development of such …

Arsenic pollution of sediments in China: An assessment by geochemical baseline

L Han, B Gao, H Hao, J Lu, D Xu - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Arsenic (As) contamination in sediments has been reported worldwide. However, few
studies have investigated As contamination on a national scale in China. This study aims to …

Lead contamination in sediments in the past 20 years: A challenge for China

L Han, B Gao, H Hao, H Zhou, J Lu, K Sun - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Lead (Pb) contamination was recognized in China early in the 1920s. However, the
response of Pb contamination in sediments to China's rapid economic and social …

Metal pollution status in Zhelin Bay surface sediments inferred from a sequential extraction technique, South China Sea

YG Gu, Q Lin, SJ Jiang, ZH Wang - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2014 - Elsevier
Surface sediments collected from Zhelin Bay, the largest mariculture base of eastern
Guangdong Province, were analyzed for total metal concentrations and chemical speciation …

Spatial variation, sources, and potential ecological risk of metals in sediment in the northern South China Sea

S Zhang, S Pan, G Li, Z Liu - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metals are of great concern to humans because of their persistence,
bioaccumulation, and toxicity. A study on the spatial variation, sources, and potential …

Co-occurrence correlations of heavy metals in sediments revealed using network analysis

L Liu, Z Wang, F Ju, T Zhang - Chemosphere, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study, the correlation-based study was used to identify the co-occurrence correlations
among metals in marine sediment of Hong Kong, based on the long-term (from 1991 to …

Trace metals in a sediment core from the largest mariculture base of the eastern Guangdong coast, South China: Vertical distribution, speciation, and biological risk

YG Gu, Q Lin - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2016 - Elsevier
A sediment core collected from Zhelin Bay, the biggest mariculture base of the eastern
Guangdong Province, was analyzed for trace metal concentrations and chemical fractions …