Unnikrishnan,P; Dr.Muraleedharan Nair, S(Cochin University Of Science And Technology, December , 2000)
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Abstract:
Environmental persistence, fate and interactive effects with living
organisms - beneficial or toxic - of trace elements are directly related to the
physico-chemical forms in which they occur. Knowledge on the association of
trace metals with different environmental compartments in an aquatic system
are, therefore, essential for monitoring the trace metal pollution as well as
transport, fate and bio-geochemical cycles of trace metals. This thesis is a
modest attempt in assessing the trace metal levels and their behaviour in the
aquatic environment of Kuttanad, an aquatic system that is severely affected
by man's intervention on natural processes, by seriously evaluating the levels
of trace metals in dissolved and particulate phases and also in the different
chemical fractions of the sediments.
Description:
Department of Chemical Oceanography, School of Marine Sciences,
Cochin University of Science and Technology