Bioaccumulation kinetics and exposure pathways of inorganic mercury and methylmercury in a marine fish, the sweetlips Plectorhinchus gibbosus

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 261, Issue , 2003, Pages 257-268

  Wang, Wen Xiong ^a   Wong, Raymond S K ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Exposure; Fish; Kinetic modeling; Mercury; Methylmercury

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; BIOACCUMULATION; FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY;

ANOSTRACA; ARGENTINA ELONGATA; ARTEMIA; COPEPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PLECTORHINCHUS; PLECTORHINCHUS GIBBOSUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242540484     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps261257     Document Type: Article

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