Sand goby

Healy, M.C. (1972). Bioenergetics of a sand goby population. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 29,187—194. 

Kirby, M., J. Bignell, E. Brown, J. Craft, I. Davies, R. Dyer, S. Feist, G. Jones, P. Matthiessen, C. Megginson, F. Robertson and C. Robinson. The presence of morphologically intermediate papilla syndrome in United Kingdom populations of sand goby (Pomatoschistus spp) endocrine disruption Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 22 239-251, 2003. 

Arid and semi-arid lands are quite widespread in Asia, where deserts make up some 11% of this continent (Table 1.1) in Central Asia, north and east of the Caspian to Aral Sea area. In the Turkestan desert, large dunes form huge sand seas (Nettleton and Peterson, 1983). West and North of China, the Takla-Makan and Gobi deserts dominate the landscapes. More to the south, the Great Indian Desert extends up to the Himalayan foothills. More to the west are the hyperarid areas of the Dasht-i-Lat and Dasht-i-Kavri deserts in Iran and Syrian deserts. Immense areas in the north-central part of the Arabian Peninsula and in the Rub al Khali deserts in its southeastern part are hyperarid or arid. 

Analysis of these data show that concentration of each chemical element was higher in TSP during Yellow sand cases than during non-Yellow sand cases by 2-3 orders. Most elements were indicated to have higher concentrations in coarse particles than in finer ones. This could be related both to the chemical composition of soil from the Gobi desert as the main source of coarse TSP and to the adsorption of heavy... 

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