A GIS study to rank Irish agricultural lands with background and anthropogenic concentrations of metal(loid)s in soil

Evaluation of Some Heavy Metals, Their Fate and Transportation in Water, Sediment, and Some Biota within AL-Musayyib River, Babylon Governorate, Iraq

“…In C. demersum Zn> Fe > Cu>Pb> Cr > Ni > Cd and in P. australis Zn> Fe > Cu>Pb> Cd > Ni > Cr ,the zinc element recorded the highest rate of concentration of the studied elements in the aquatic plant while the cadmium and chromium element recorded the lowest rate respectively in C. demersum and P. australis because sediments are a major sink for heavy metals in water and are crucial for aquatic organisms' uptake of heavy metals. Depending on the distribution of heavy metals in sediments and where the organisms were caught, the heavy metal concentrations in aquatic organisms in the three areas varied greatly 37 domingensis and Potamogeton pectinatus plants and he found that those plants had the ability to accumulate heavy metals due to rates of concentrations which were higher in the studied plants more than sediments and water, this susceptibility varies with the variability of the source of contamination and different plant type. Al-Edani et al, 39 studied the ability of three plants to accumulate some h(Fe, Cd, Cu, and Pb)in two locations along the Shatt Al-Arab River, they found that rates of elements were high C. demersum that reflected good efficiency in removing element pollutants followed by P. australis and finally in Cyperus rotundus.…”