Ahmed Abdelaal, El Saeed R Lasheen, Abbas M Mansour, Ahmed W Mohamed, Mohamed R Osman, Farrage M Khaleal, Mohamed A Tahoon, Bandar A Al-Mur
This study assessed pollution levels, ecological and health risk, and spatial distribution of eight heavy metals in sediments of Big Giftun and Abu Minqar Islands, Red Sea, Egypt. Iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) had the highest contents in both island sediments, while cobalt (Co) in Big Giftun and cadmium (Cd) in Abu Mingar had the lowest values. The obtained PCA data exhibited positively significant loadings of Cd, Co, copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), and zinc (Zn) with 51.03 % of data variance in Big Giftun, and lead (Pb), Cu, Mn, Ni, Zn, and Fe (37...
December 14, 2023: Marine Pollution Bulletin