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3 Conclusions
Tallo River Estuary is characterised by a good water
quality except for some physical characteristic that
fluctuate as a result of natural annual season changes.
However, due to high human activity sarrounding
estuary especially industrial activity, Tallo River
estuary have been polluted by three main heavy metals,
such as Lead, Cuprum and Chromium. Those heavy
metal was high at both in the water and sediment. The
concentration of heavy metal, especially for Pb, Cu
and Cr in the water correlated significantly with
abundance of microalgae cell and species.
Skeletonema sp and Synedra sp
have strong
correlation with Chromium.
Acknowledgements
The authors’ would like to thank to the Directorate General of
Higher Education, Ministry of National Education, Republic of
Indonesia for the financial assistance of this research.
Infrastructure facility provided by Marine Science and
Fisheries Faculty, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
is duly acknowledged.
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