Distribution of particulate, colloidal, and dissolved mercury in San Francisco Bay estuary. 2. Monomethyl mercury

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1547-1556

  Choe, Key Young ^a,b   Gill, Gary A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOID; DISSOLVED MATTER; ESTUARY; METHYLMERCURY; PARTICULATE MATTER; ULTRAFILTRATION;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041570276     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.4.1547     Document Type: Article

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