A long-term survey of heavy metals and specific organic compounds in biofilms, sediments and surface water in a heavily affected river in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A long-term survey of heavy metals and specific organic compounds in biofilms, sediments and surface water in a heavily affected river in the Czech Republic

Original language description

To assess the long-term anthropogenic load of the Bílina River (Czech Republic), the concentrations of heavy metals and specific organic compounds in different river ecosystem matrices (water, biofilms and sediments) were determined. Although the currentconcentrations of pollutants in surface water are low, frequently below the limits of the quantitative analytical methods used, the river ecosystem is still heavily loaded by anthropogenic pollution, mainly from the chemical and mining industries. Thiswas demonstrated by analyzing biofilms and sediments. These matrices are more accurate representatives of the actual situation in the river, and do not depend on hydrological conditions or random variability in water quality. The results indicate that the middle and the lower parts of the river are heavily polluted by mercury, arsenic, vanadium, polychlorinated biphenyls, hexachlorobenzene and dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DA - Hydrology and limnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/SP%2F1B7%2F124%2F08" target="_blank" >SP/1B7/124/08: Negative anthropogenic impacts on the Bílina River catchment (Czech Republic)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2010

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

ISSN

0167-6369

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

174

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000286830200042

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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