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Fish as bioindicators for trace element pollution from two contrasting lakes in the Eastern Rift Valley, Kenya: spatial and temporal aspects

  • Christof Plessl
  • , Elick O. Otachi
  • , Wilfried Koerner
  • , Annemarie Avenant-Oldewage
  • , Franz Jirsa (Corresponding author)

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)19767-19776
Number of pages10
JournalEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research
Volume24
Issue number24
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2017

Funding

Open access funding provided by University of Vienna. We thank the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH), Centre for International Cooperation and Mobility (ICM), for funding parts of this study through a scholarship award within the Austrian Partnership Program in Higher Education and Research for Development (APPEAR). We also wish to thank Egerton University and the Kenya Marine Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) for providing laboratory space, facilities, and technical assistance. Michael Stachowitsch is thanked for reviewing the English of this article.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
    SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 104003 Inorganic chemistry
  • 104023 Environmental chemistry

Keywords

  • Trace elements
  • Heavy metals
  • Lake Naivasha
  • Lake Turkana
  • Tilapia zillii
  • Cyprinus carpio
  • FRESH-WATER FISH
  • HEAVY-METAL CONTAMINATION
  • HEALTH-RISK ANALYSIS
  • RAINBOW-TROUT
  • NAIVASHA
  • SILVER
  • RIVER
  • BIOACCUMULATION
  • SEDIMENTS
  • TOXICITY

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