<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> For the first time the concentration of 26 macro- and microelements (Na, Mg, Al, Cl, K, Ca, Sc, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, As, Br, Rb, Sr, Sb, I, Cs, Ba, Sm, Nd, Ag, Au, and U) in the thalli of brown algae Cystoseira barbata C. Ag. and Cystoseira crinita (Desf.) Bory was determined by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA), Sevastopol region, south-western Crimea, the Black Sea. The observed peculiarities of the elemental accumulation showed that Cystoseira spp. can be used as a biomonitor of coastal waters pollution in the study area.</p></abstract>

For the first time the concentration of 26 macro- and microelements (Na, Mg, Al, Cl, K, Ca, Sc, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, As, Br, Rb, Sr, Sb, I, Cs, Ba, Sm, Nd, Ag, Au, and U) in the thalli of brown algae Cystoseira barbata C. Ag. and Cystoseira crinita (Desf.) Bory was determined by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA), Sevastopol region, south-western Crimea, the Black Sea. The observed peculiarities of the elemental accumulation showed that Cystoseira spp. can be used as a biomonitor of coastal waters pollution in the study area.

Elemental accumulation in the black sea brown algae cystoseira studied by neutron activation analysis

Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, 99011 Sevastopol, Ukraine / Department of Neutron Activation Analysis and Applied Research, Division of Nuclear Physics, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia

Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, 99011 Sevastopol, Ukraine

Department of Neutron Activation Analysis and Applied Research, Division of Nuclear Physics, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia

Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S

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For the first time the concentration of 26 macro- and microelements (Na, Mg, Al, Cl, K, Ca, Sc, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, As, Br, Rb, Sr, Sb, I, Cs, Ba, Sm, Nd,...

Elemental accumulation in the black sea brown algae cystoseira studied by neutron activation analysis

Online veröffentlicht: 09. Apr. 2014

Seitenbereich: 9 - 23

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eces-2014-0001

Schlüsselwörter
biomonitoring, trace elements, Cystoseira barbata, Cystoseira crinita, neutron activation analysis, Black Sea

© by Alexandra Kravtsova

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Elemental accumulation in the black sea brown algae cystoseira studied by neutron activation analysis

Online veröffentlicht: 09. Apr. 2014

Seitenbereich: 9 - 23

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eces-2014-0001

Schlüsselwörterbiomonitoring, trace elements, Cystoseira barbata, Cystoseira crinita, neutron activation analysis, Black Sea

© by Alexandra Kravtsova

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Schlüsselwörter
biomonitoring, trace elements, Cystoseira barbata, Cystoseira crinita, neutron activation analysis, Black Sea