Total and organic mercury concentrations in offshore crustaceans of the Ligurian Sea and their relations to the trophic levels

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 149-162

  Minganti, V ^a   Capelli, R ^a   De Pellegrini, R ^a   Orsi Relini, L ^b   Relini, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crustaceans; Ligurian Sea; Organic mercury; Total mercury; Trophic levels

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BIOACCUMULATION; CRUSTACEA; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA;

ARISTEUS ANTENNATUS; GENNADAS ELEGANS; MEGANYCTHIPHANES NORVEGICA; PASIPHAEA MULTIDENTATA; PASIPHAEA SIVADO;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY; ORGANIC MERCURY; TROPHIC LEVELS;

LIGURIAN SEA;

EID: 0029668924     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(96)05076-0     Document Type: Article

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