Biogeochemical controls on metal behaviour in freshwater environments

The biogeochemical controls on metal behaviour in aqueous environments involve complex linkages of biological, principally bacterially driven, and geochemical processes, which occur at both microscopic and macroscopic scales. The framework of aqueous surface chemistry and aquatic geochemistry continues to provide the foundations of the emerging paradigm: (1) metal behaviour (e.g., transport, toxicity, bioaccumulation) is governed by …