20.500.12556/DiRROS-17504 Heavy metal signature and environmental assessment of nearshore sediments: Port of Koper (Northern Adriatic Sea) Heavy metal abundance and potential environmental risks are reported for surface sediments (n = 21) from the Port of Koper area, Republic of Slovenia. The enrichment factor (EF) indicates minor enrichment in arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), molybdenum (Mo), lead (Pb), antimony (Sb), and zinc (Zn), moderately to severely enriched with nickel (Ni). The trace metal chemistries, in the context of sediment quality guidelines (SQG), imply adverse threshold effect concentrations (TEC) and probable effect concentrations (PEC), for Ni only. Sediment sequential leaching experiments demonstrated that the majority of heavy metals were of natural lithogenic origin and low bioavailability. The heavy metals’ potential for “Risk Assessment Code” values exhibited no or low anthropogenic environmental burden, with the exception of Mo. port sediments heavy metals chemical speciation risk assessment Northem Adriatic Sea morski sediment težke kovine kemijska speciacija ocean tveganja severno jadransko morje true false true MDPI AG Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Neznano 2023-12-12 07:29:58 2023-12-12 07:29:59 2023-12-13 03:39:12 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2018 0 0 18 str. iss. 11 Vol. 8 2018 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2018-10-31 502/504 2076-3263 10.3390/geosciences8110398 2406247 RAZ_Rogan_Smuc_Nastja_2018.pdf RAZ_Rogan_Smuc_Nastja_2018.pdf 1 09D6B034CA461DF41D7E4BC9BA38C12A 7dc9207c19c1f3db8220e2ea798278fd3b982bdee654114cc06972161c29fdb0 cd58eab9-98af-11ee-9ccb-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=23784 https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8110398 0 c650dba1-98af-11ee-9ccb-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=23783 Zavod za gradbeništvo Slovenije 0 0 0