Total mercury and methylmercury fluxes via emerging insects in recently flooded hydroelectric reservoirs and a natural lake

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 219, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 209-221

  Tremblay, Alain ^a   Cloutier, Louise ^b   Lucotte, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Dept Physiol Fac Med Univ M   (Canada)

Author keywords

Insects; Methylmercury; Natural lakes; Reservoirs; Total mercury

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; INSECT; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 0032575702     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00227-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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