Projektnummer

0058630

Zusammenfassung

Urbanisation and human population growth are causing increasing demand on the use water resources through land-use changes and pollution of inland and coastal waters. Benthic species can be used as indicators of water quality (i) due to their specific ecological tolerances to particular pollutants and (ii) due to their potential to archive events over long period of time. Chemical analyses of trace elements and isotopic signatures of bivalves (tissue and shells) reveal natural and human impacts of pollution which allows the reconstruction of past aquatic environmental conditions (e.g.,...