Sediment-Water Interactions in Anoxic Freshwater Sediments Mobility of Heavy Metals and Nutrients /

• Main Authors: Song, Yigang (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Müller, German (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 81
• Subjects: Sedimentology.; Environmental sciences.; Environmental management.; Hydrogeology.; Environmental Science and Engineering.; Environmental Management.

Aquatic sediments are important sinks of inorganic and organic pollutants as well as of nutrients in highly industrialized and densely populated areas. As many aquatic organisms live in or on the sediments, polluted sediments provide a pathway for the chemicals to food-chain organisms, and finally t...