Mercury methylation along a lake-forest transect in the Tapajos river floodplain, Brazilian Amazon: Seasonal and vertical variations

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 261, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 91-98

  Guimarães, Jean Remy Davée ^a   Roulet, Marc ^b   Lucotte, Marc ^b   Mergler, Donna ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Floodplain; Macrophytes; Methylmercury; Sediment; Soil

Indexed keywords

LAKE WATER; METHYLMERCURY;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; METHYLMERCURY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NATURAL DISASTERS; PLANTS; SEASONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0037919715     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00627-6     Document Type: Article

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