Sources such as urban discharge, industrial effluents, and agricultural runoff enhance sediment metal levels in receiving water bodies.
The results of this study supplied valuable information on the metal levels in black-chin tilapia from the Kpeshi lagoon.
On a broad scale, environmental contamination mainly influenced metal levels in blackbirds, tissue residues increasing with soil contamination.
The study assessed trace metal levels in the leaves, stalks and roots of Spinacia oleracea harvested from soil treated with urine in comparison to chemical fertilizers and biosolids.
The assessment of acid-extractable metal levels in the sediments is the first step to gauge the pollution of the water reservoir.
The estimated daily intake (EDI) of heavy metals was determined based on both the metal levels in crops and the amount of consumption of the respective food crop.
However, there have been no such reports, on the essential and non-essential metal levels in oyster mushroom samples cultivated in Ethiopia.
The obtained results are indented to provide researchers with a tool needed to help them to set reliable limits of ion (metal) levels in the environment.
In this study, we introduce a methodology that identifies the heavy metal levels in floodplain lake sediments deposited by one source; fluvial floods.
The observed differences between the bat species may reflect varying metal levels in their foraging areas as well as differences in preferred prey species and metal kinetics.
While the finding provides some support for the team's hypothesis, future analyses, including direct measurements of heavy metal levels in the birds' bloodstream, would likely provide a better assessment, Chatelain says.
