Concentrations of essential (copper, iron, manganese, selenium, and zinc) and non-essential (arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead) trace elements were measured in arms of Octopus vulgaris. The cephalopods were sampled from commercial fishery landings at two sites on the Portuguese coast in spring 2002 and 2003. Mercury was determined using an Advanced Mercury Analyser Spectrophotometer (AMAS) an...

The investigation of the anthropogenic contamination by heavy metals of soils is very important for environmental planning and monitoring in urban areas. In the present study, surface soils (0 20 cm) samples from 167 sampling sites in Xuzhou (China) were collected in 2010 and analyzed for heavy metals including Zn, Pb, Fe, Mn, Cu, Cd, Sr, Ba Cr, Ni and Mo via inductively coupled plasma/mass spe...

in order to evaluate the effect of foliar application of micro nutrients on physiological growth indices and total dry matter yield of forage corn. field experiment was conducted in 2006 at bersian village isfahan. a randomized complete block design with four replications was used. plant treated with 8 foliar application treatments (fe, zn, cu, mn, fe + mn, cu + zn, fe + mn + cu + zn and contro...

Geochemical post-pyrogenic soil changes are one of the most important factors in determining state forest ecosystem. For first time content microelements (Hg, As, Ba, Mg, Mn, Mo, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Pb, Zn, V, Ni) sod-podzolic soils under pine Zhytomyr Polissya (Ukraine) was determined by ICP-MS method. The study is based on a comparison trace elements background area and burnt areas (grassland fir...

in the present study, a field study was performed on some herbaceous plants growing in thesoutheast of ahvaz, where some metal producing industries are active. the aim of this studywas to investigate and compare manganese (mn) and zinc (zn) accumulation in seven dominantherbaceous plants in this area. plant samples were collected randomly. associated soils weresampled from the same sites next t...