ArticleEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2018
Metal biomonitoring in a Patagonian salt marsh.
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- Preliminary findings from a pilot moss biomonitoring study in the Patagonia region.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- First approaches to the depuration process of trace metals in the burrowing crab Neohelice granulata from a temperate wetland in South America: Bahía Blanca estuary, Argentina.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020Article
- Uptake and detoxification of trace metals in estuarine crabs: insights into the role of metallothioneins.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020Article
- Potential mobility assessment of metals in salt marsh sediments from San Antonio Bay.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2019Article
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Abstract
Patagonian salt marshes are not affected by pollution, but historical mining wastes are a continuous source of metals to salt marsh in San Antonio Bay. The present study evaluated the concentration of metals in sediments and used the halophyte Spartina spp. and the crab N. granulata as biomonitors. The levels of metals in sediment and organisms in SAB remained at levels corresponding to a slight enrichment or contamination. The highest levels corresponded to innermost sites of the Encerrado channel and close to the mining wastes. Spartina is a phytostabilizer so its aboveground tissues do not reflect the concentrations in the sediment; although, it retains the metals in its belowground tissues and in the rhizosediment. N. granulata showed to be a useful biomonitor for Pb, but not for the other metals.
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