Interactions between dissolved organic carbon and mercury species in surface waters of the Florida Everglades

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 395-407

  Cai, Yong ^a   Jaffé, Rudolf ^a   Jones, Ronald D ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MERCURY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ULTRAFILTRATION;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SURFACE WATER; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033002495     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(98)00053-5     Document Type: Article

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