Environmental contamination by heavy metals is a serious problem due to their incremental accumulation in the food chain. Unlike most organic wastes and the microbial load in aquatic bodies, metal contaminants are not biodegradable, tending to accumulate in living organisms, thus becoming a permanent burden on ecosystems (Bayo, 2012). Most heavy metals are transition elements with incompletely ...

Sungai Musi merupakan sungai terpanjang di Pulau Sumatera yang banyak dimanfaatkan masyarakat sebagai jalur transportasi dan berbagai aktivitas lainnya. habitat fitoplankton dapat menjadi indikator kualitas perairan. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui kelimpahan, keragaman, keseragaman, dominansi, menganalisis potensi HABs Perairan bagian hilir. Hasil pengamatan pada 10 stasiun, ditemukan 6 ge...

Daniel Guimarans , Silvia Padrón , Juan José Ramos , Salma Fitouri-Trabelsi 3 and Liana Napalkova 2 1 Optimisation Research Group, National ICT Australia (NICTA), 13 Garden Street, Eveleigh NSW 2015, Australia [email protected] 2 Dpt. Telecommunication and Systems Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Emprius 2, 08202 Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain {silvia.padron, juanjose.ram...

algae have been proven efficient biological vectors for heavy metal uptake. in order to further study their biosorption potential, two strains spirogyra sp. and spirulina sp. have been studied under different initial metal concentrations. in recent years, the biosorption processes have been studied extensively using microbial biomass as biosorbent for heavy metal ions removal. in these studies...