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Chemical and Environmental Assessment of Shoaling Sea Water Contamination with Heavy Metals |
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12.09.2008 г. |
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Chemical and Environmental Assessment of Shoaling Sea Water Contamination with Heavy Metals A. P. Suponina, M. D. Koryakova, and P. S. Gordienko Institute of Chemistry, Far East Division, Russian Academy of Sciences,
pr. Stoletiya Vladivostoka 159, Vladivostok, 690022 Russia Received November 28, 2007 Abstract — A biofouling community on frosted glass in the first succession stage that includes plankton organisms and juvenile balanuses as well as bivalvia Mytilus trossulus served as the object of biological monitoring for comparative assessment of the heavy-metal contamination level of sea water in polluted and background near-shore water areas. It is noted that the mineral composition of the biofouling microcommunity may point to the local chemical and ecological state of the environment in a sea area under study. PACS numbers: 92.40.Oj DOI: 10.1134/S0033173208050147
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