Heavy metal concentrations in surface water, sediments and fish and their potential toxicity in highly degraded multipurpose peri-urban Eleyele Lake, Ibadan City, Oyo State, south-western Nigeria

Heavy metal concentrations in surface water, sediments and fish and their potential toxicity in highly degraded multipurpose peri-urban Eleyele Lake, Ibadan City, Oyo State, south-western Nigeria

Metal concentrations in water, sediments and gills and edible stomach muscle tissues of two fish species, African Sharptooth mud catfish (Clarias gariepinus) and the Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Eleyele Lake, Nigeria, were assessed in the rainy season (April), mid-dry spell time (July) an...

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Main Authors: Beaven Utete, Bernadette. T. Fregene
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-01-01
Series:Cogent Environmental Science
Subjects:
toxic metals
metropolitan catchment
pollution load
geoaccumulation index
potential ecological risk
remediation
eleyele lake
nigeria
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311843.2020.1785137

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311843.2020.1785137

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