Erratum to: Occurrence of heavy metals and radionuclides in sediments and seawater in mangrove ecosystems in Pattani Bay, Thailand

Abstract

This study belongs to the biomonitoring program of soil qualities using a land snail, Cantareus aspersus, as bioindicator. The metal-soil contamination in some sites (National Park of El Kala (NPK), El Bouni, Sidi Amar, Nechmaya, and Guelma) located in Northeast Algeria were determined during two seasons (winter and spring 2015, 2016). Glutathione (GSH) content and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity were significantly decreased in snails collected during spring as compared with those noticed during winter under bioclimate change. In addition, a significant difference between various sites was observed, depending on the proximity to pollution sources. The significant variation of biomarker levels is a function of the physic-chemical properties of soils when they positively correlated with EC, H, and OM, and negatively correlated with all metallic elements. Moreover, Fe and Al2O3 are the most abundant in all the sites, and the most polluted site was found as that of El Bouni, followed by Sidi Amar, Nechmaya, and Guelma, since NPK is the less polluted site and considered a reference site. The tested biomarkers are sensitive oxidative parameters in snails exposed to pollution correlated significantly with the soil physic-chemical properties and metallic element contents in soil. Indeed, C. aspersus could be used as sentinel species in field monitoring of Mediterranean climate regions.

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ERRATUM
Erratum to: Occurrence of heavy metals and radionuclides
in sediments and seawater in mangrove ecosystems in Pattani
Bay, Thailand
Pungtip Kaewtubtim
1
&Weeradej Meeinkuirt
2
&Sumalee Seepom
1
&John Pichtel
3
Published online: 8 March 2017
#Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2017
Erratum to: Environ Sci Pollut Res
DOI 10.1007/s11356-016-8266-9
The original publication of this paper contains a mistake.
The sentence in the caption of Table 4 BSharp (#) indicates the
difference of 40K concentration between sites 4 and 5^should
be removed and retained in the caption of Table 3.
The original article was corrected.
The online version of the original article can be found at http://dx.doi.
org/10.1007/s11356-016-8266-9
*Weeradej Meeinkuirt
phytoplankton8@gmail.com
1
Department of Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Prince of
Songkla University, Pattani Campus, Pattani 94000, Thailand
2
Mahidol University, Nakhonsawan Campus, Nakhonsawan 60130,
Thailand
3
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management,
Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA
Environ Sci Pollut Res (2017) 24:9826
DOI 10.1007/s11356-017-8694-1
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