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Uptake of Heavy Metals by Marine Aquatic Macrophytes

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

The potential of algae to accumulate heavy metals in marine environments was studied. The aim is to study the accumulation of Cd, Pb, Cu, Zn, Mn, Fe, and Mg in algal biomass that grows in the Little Bitter Lake, Egypt. Consequently, the level of metals in twelve different algal species was studied extensively. The investigated algae belong to Green, Brown, and Red algae. The investigation includes the influence of seasonal variation on the rate of heavy metals accumulation by algae. Meanwhile, levels of metals in the Lake water were also assessed. The results indicated differences between the metal concentration and the different algal species. Furthermore, differences were also found in the levels of different metals within the studied algae. The overall results showed that the highest accumulation rate was exhibited by Red algae followed by Green and then Brown algal species. Correlation between the level of metals in the Lake Water and the studied algal species was conducted to determine the concentration factors for each metal. It was concluded that the bioaccumulation of heavy metals by aquatic algae is an indication of the availability of those metals within the aquatic environment.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2024.257942.9077

Keywords

Environmental contamination, Removal, Accumulation, algae, micro-pollutants, Aquatic, bio-indicator

Authors

First Name

Hussein

Last Name

Abdel-Shafy

MiddleName

Ibrahim

Affiliation

Water Research & Pollution Control Department, National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

Email

hshafywater@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-3381-2617

First Name

Amr

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Civil Engineering, The British University in Egypt, Elshorouk, Egypt

Email

amr.ibrahim@bue.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0003-4259-441X

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

El-Khateeb

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Water Pollution Control Dep., National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

Email

elkhateebcairo@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0001-8670-265X

Volume

67

Article Issue

11

Related Issue

50157

Issue Date

2024-11-01

Receive Date

2023-12-25

Publish Date

2024-11-01

Page Start

471

Page End

477

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_346615.html

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=346615

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346,615

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Original Article

Type Code

297

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

Publication Link

https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Uptake of Heavy Metals by Marine Aquatic Macrophytes

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Article

Created At

30 Dec 2024