Biodiversity reduction on contaminated sediments in the sea: contamination or sediment mobility?
Where contaminants in sediments correlate with biodiversity reductions, the contamination may not be the cause. Other physical factors may be responsible, and should be investigated so that any remedial action is directed properly. Two examples are given where unusual sediment mobility caused biodiversity reductions in sediments with elevated trace contaminants.
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Derek V
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Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3N5. dvellis@uvic.ca
D000818:Animals; D001681:Biological Assay; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000737:chemistry*; D011157:Population Dynamics; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014872:Water Movements; D014873:Water Pollutants / Q000506:poisoning*
D014873:Water Pollutants