Title : ( Distribution and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in surface sediments along southeast coast of the Caspian Sea )
Authors: Kazem Darvish Bastami , Hossein Bagheri , Vahid Kheirabadi , Ghasem Ghorbanzadeh Zaferani , Mohammad Bagher Teymori , Ali Hamzehpoor , Farzaneh Soltani , Sarah Haghparast , Sayyed Reza Moussavi Harami , Nasrin Farzaneh Ghorghani , Sahar Ganji ,
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Abstract
The present study aimed to evaluate heavy metal concentrations of Arsenic (As), Copper (Cu), Nickel (Ni), Lead (Pb) and Zinc (Zn), their spatial distribution, enrichment factor index (EF), the pollution load index (PLI) and potential ecological risk (PER) in two different seasons of the year (winter and summer) in surface sediments along southeast coast of the Caspian Sea. The results indicated that there were significant differences between concentrations of As, Ni and Pb in two different seasons. Considering PER, sediments from southeast Caspian coast had low ecological risk. According to PLI, sediment from the southeast coast had no pollution. Risk assessment showed that As threshold concentrations to occasionally be exceeded in the study area.
Keywords
Heavy metals Sediment Potential ecological risk Season Caspian Sea
@article{paperid:1040819,
author = {Kazem Darvish Bastami and Hossein Bagheri and Vahid Kheirabadi and Ghasem Ghorbanzadeh Zaferani and Mohammad Bagher Teymori and Ali Hamzehpoor and Farzaneh Soltani and Sarah Haghparast and Moussavi Harami, Sayyed Reza and Nasrin Farzaneh Ghorghani and Sahar Ganji},
title = {Distribution and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in surface sediments along southeast coast of the Caspian Sea},
journal = {Marine Pollution Bulletin},
year = {2014},
volume = {81},
number = {1},
month = {April},
issn = {0025-326X},
pages = {262--267},
numpages = {5},
keywords = {Heavy metals
Sediment
Potential ecological risk
Season
Caspian Sea},
}
%0 Journal Article
%T Distribution and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in surface sediments along southeast coast of the Caspian Sea
%A Kazem Darvish Bastami
%A Hossein Bagheri
%A Vahid Kheirabadi
%A Ghasem Ghorbanzadeh Zaferani
%A Mohammad Bagher Teymori
%A Ali Hamzehpoor
%A Farzaneh Soltani
%A Sarah Haghparast
%A Moussavi Harami, Sayyed Reza
%A Nasrin Farzaneh Ghorghani
%A Sahar Ganji
%J Marine Pollution Bulletin
%@ 0025-326X
%D 2014
