Coupling mercury methylation rates to sulfate reduction rates in marine sediments

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1362-1369

  King, Jeffrey K ^a,b   Saunders, F Michael ^a   Lee, Richard F ^b   Jahnke, Richard A ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

Author keywords

Methylmercury; Sediment; Sulfate reduction rate; Sulfate reducing bacteria

Indexed keywords

BIOAVAILABILITY; MERCURY METHYLATION RATES (MMR); SULFATE REDUCTION RATE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA;

ADDITION REACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REACTION KINETICS; SEDIMENTS; SLURRIES; SULFATE MINERALS;

SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL;

MERCURY;

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MERCURIALISM; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032996791     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<1362:CMMRTS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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