Establishment of environmental specimen bank in Shanghai

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Zhang, Yuan-xun | Wang, Yin-song | Qian, Yin-e | Tan, Ming-guang | Zhi, Ming | Li, De-yi | Cheng, Feng | Znang, Gui-lin

Affiliations: Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

Abstract: The program of the Shanghai Environmental Specimen Bank (SESB) has been established recently and its current status is briefly described. Typical specimen such as water and sediment of Suzhou creek, city particulate matter are collected and some results which have been obtained during the long term permanent operation of this project since 1998 are presented. Moreover, further aspects of environmental data evaluation and assessment are discussed.

Keywords: specimen bank, environment, ecology

Journal: Journal of Environmental Sciences, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 398-401, 2000