Impact of wildfire and clear-cutting in the boreal forest on methyl mercury in zooplankton

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 339-345

  Garcia, Edenise ^a   Carignan, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOGGING; METHYLMERCURY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033031052     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f98-164     Document Type: Article

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