Factors controlling the availability of sediment-bound lead to the estuarine bivalve scrobicularia plana
- 1 August 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 58 (4), 793-802
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400056769
Abstract
Concentrations of lead in the soft tissues of the deposit-feeding bivalve Scrobicularia plana have been compared with the physicochemical characteristics of sediments in 20 estuaries in southern and western England and one in north-west France. The results indicate that the biological availability of lead in the sediment is controlled mainly by the concentration of iron, and that the concentration of lead in the bivalve may be predicted from the Pb/Fe ratio in 1 N hydrochloric acid extracts of surface sediments.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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