Seine River estuary

Figure 10.19 Nitrogen inputs (kt N y ) to the Seine River estuary (France) over the last 50 years. (Modified from Billen et al., 2001.)...

Billen, G, Gamier, J., Ficht, A., and Cun, C. (2001) Modeling the response of water quality in the Seine River estuary to human activity in its watershed over the last 50 years. Estuaries 24, 977-993. 

Gamier, J., Servais, P., Billen, G, Akopian, M., and Brion, N. (2001) Lower Seine River and estuary (France) carbon and oxygen budgets during low flow. Estuaries 24, 964-976. 

Brion, N., BiUen, G., Guezennec, L., and Ficht, A. (2000). Distribution of nitrifying activity in the Seine River (France) from Paris to the estuary. Estuaries 23, 669—682. 

George, I., Petit, M., Theate, C., and Servais, P. (2001). Distribution of coUforms in the Seine River and Estuary (France) studied by rapid enzymatic methods and plate counts. Estuaries 24 994-1002. 

De Voogt et al. [23] analysed marine and estuarine sediments from 22 sites in northwestern Europe (extending from Ireland and France to Norway and Sweden) by HPLC-FL. NP, OP, AgPEO and AgPEO concentration ranges of 0.1-17, highest levels were found in the estuaries of the rivers Seine, Mersey, Rhine/Meuse, Weser and Elbe. 

The purpose of this study was to obtain information regarding the speciation of cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and copper (Cu) in an estuary area. Only the distribution of metal in the soluble fraction (size smaller than 0.45 pm) will be investigated in this paper. The Seine estuary was chosen in order to study the effects of estuarine processes on the behaviour of metals and organic-matter carried by rivers discharging into very high tides (such tides produce considerable water displacement). 

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