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Trace Elements in Crustaceans, Mollusks and Fish in the Kenyan Part of Lake Victoria: Bioaccumulation, Bioindication and Health Risk Analysis

  • James Omondi Outa
  • , Chrispin O. Kowenje
  • , Annemarie Avenant-Oldewage
  • , Franz Jirsa (Corresponding author)

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)589-603
Number of pages15
JournalArchives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Volume78
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2020

Funding

Open access funding provided by University of Vienna. The authors thank the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH) for funding parts of this study through a scholarship award within the Austrian Partnership Program in Higher Education and Research for Development (APPEAR). They also thank The National Council of Science and Technology, Kenya, for approval of this research through the Maseno University Ethics Review Committee: Reference Number -MSU/DRPI/MUERC/00672/19. Finally, thanks to Maseno University, Kenya, for providing laboratory space, facilities, and technical assistance during data collection in Lake Victoria. 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

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 104023 Environmental chemistry
  • 106020 Limnology
  • 301211 Toxicology

Keywords

  • HEAVY-METALS
  • OREOCHROMIS-NILOTICUS
  • SILVER NANOPARTICLES
  • CARIDINA-NILOTICA
  • SOUTH-AFRICA
  • WINAM GULF
  • WATER
  • SEDIMENTS
  • RIVER
  • CONTAMINATION

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