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Contaminated aquatic sediments
Summary
This 2019 review summarizes published research on contaminated aquatic sediments, covering monitoring methods, pollutant transport, and remediation strategies across multiple contaminant types including microplastics. Aquatic sediments are a major sink and reservoir for microplastics as well as the chemical pollutants they carry.
Aquatic sediments are contaminated by different anthropogenic activities and natural deposition. This review manuscript has discussed on published manuscript in 2019 based on monitoring and identification of contaminants, GIS application and isotopic evaluation for monitoring of pollutants, physicochemical and biochemical fate and transport of the pollutants as well as remediation and toxicity analysis so that environmental and ecological impacts due to pollution can be minimized.
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