Factors affecting food chain transfer of mercury in the vicinity of the Nyanza site, Sudbury River, Massachusetts

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 211-232

  Haines, Terry A ^a   May, Thomas W ^a   Finlayson, R Todd ^b   Mierzykowski, Steven E ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c Maine Field Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish; Industrial contamination; Invertebrates; Mercury; Sediment

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; MERCURY (METAL); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTS;

FOOD CHAIN;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY; SULFIDE; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RIVER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL WASTE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAYFISH; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; LARGEMOUTH BASS; NONHUMAN; PERCH; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; RESERVOIR; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INSECTS; LARVA; MASSACHUSETTS; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

UNITED STATES;

AMEIURUS; AMEIURUS NEBULOSUS; ANIMALIA; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ASTACOIDEA; COTTUS GOBIO; INVERTEBRATA; LEPOMIS; LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES; PERCA FLAVESCENS; POMOXIS; POMOXIS NIGROMACULATUS;

EID: 0037484201     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024017329382     Document Type: Article

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