Estuarine environments biota

Pereira WE, Rostad CE, Chlou CT, et al. 1988. Contamination of estuarine water, biota, and sediment by halogenated organic compounds A field study. Environ Sci Technol 22 772-778. 

Moreover, both river induced up-welling and river discharge of nutrients create a fertile environment which enhances the primary production of organic matter in off-shore direction of estuaries. It can be predicted from these observations that heterogeneous reactions between dissolved and both mineral phase and biota will be predominant in estuaries and coastal zones. These reactions will primarily affect those elements and compounds which are located at the particulate surface. The determination of surface properties of particles appear to be an important key to understand the interactions of trace elements and organic compounds between particulate and dissolved phases in estuarine and coastal systems. 

Kannan, K., M. Kawano, Y. Kashima, M. Matsui, and J.P. Giesy. 1999. Extractable organohalogens (EOX) in sediment and biota collected at an estuarine marsh near a former chloralkali facility. Environ. Sci. Technol. 33 1004—1008. 

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