Concentration of heavy metals in the sediment, trees and brachyuran crabs of five mangrove forests of Hong Kong

The dataset is an integral part of the research chapters of the PhD thesis entitled " Heavy metal contamination in Hong Kong mangroves: multiscale impacts on key ecosystem components", submitted by Dr Rebekah J Buttler and by her succesfully defended at HKU.

It contains the concentration of eight heavy metals in the sediment, leaves of mangrove trees and muscle tissue of mangrove associated brachyuran crabs from five mangrove forests in Hong Kong