TY - JOUR ID - 64341 TI - Review of Heavy Metal Accumulation in Aquatic Environment of Northern East Mediterrenean Sea Part II: Some Non-Essential Metals JO - Pollution JA - POLL LA - en SN - 2383-451X AU - Yilmaz, Ayşe AU - Yanar, Alper AU - Alkan, Ela AD - Faculty of Marine Sciences and Technology. Iskenderun Technical University. 31200 Iskenderun/ Hatay, TURKEY. Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 143 EP - 181 KW - Iskenderun Bay KW - Heavy Metal KW - Pollution KW - Aquatic organisms KW - monitoring DO - 10.22059/poll.2017.236121.287 N2 - Heavy metals that enter marine environment and remain in the water as well as the sediments are accumulated by aquatic organisms, thus becoming highly good indicators to monitor metal accumulation in the long run. Metals are potentially harmful to humans and most organisms at varied levels of exposure and absorption. Northern East Mediterranean Sea is a crucial region as it is an area, shared by numerous aquatic species with pollutant factors such as heavy marine traffic, transportation ports, industry plants, iron and steel works, oil pipeline installation, and other small factories. While the previous part of this review (Review of heavy metal accumulation on aquatic environment in Northern East Mediterranean Sea part I: some essential metals) evaluated the data from previous studies concerning toxic effects of selected essential metals on seawater, sediment, and different tissues of aquatic animals, collected from different areas in Northern East Mediterrenean Sea since the 1990s, the present part intends to evaluate the data from previous studies on toxic effects of selected non-essential metals. For this purpose, 94 articles and 6 theses have been examined and a good deal of information has been gathered to open a forward-looking view of the studied area’s pollution. Althought there has not been any harmonization, when comparing heavy metals investigations in the bay, all studies have shown that consumption of aquatic species from the region causes no problem to human health. UR - https://jpoll.ut.ac.ir/article_64341.html L1 - https://jpoll.ut.ac.ir/article_64341_09e4df829916f51ed6152da3f995e838.pdf ER -