Hypolimnetic methylmercury and its uptake by plankton during fall destratification: A key entry point of mercury into lake food chains?

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1476-1486

  Herrin, Russell T ^a   Lathrop, Richard C ^b   Gorski, Patrick R ^b   Andren, Anders W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; HYPOLIMNION; LAKE; METHYLMERCURY; PLANKTON;

DEVIL'S LAKE; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

DAPHNIA; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 0031742284     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.7.1476     Document Type: Article

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