Impacts of zooplankton composition and algal enrichment on the accumulation of mercury in an experimental freshwater food web

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 339, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 89-101

  Pickhardt, Paul C ^a,c   Folt, Carol L ^a   Chen, Celia Y ^a   Klaue, Bjoern ^b   Blum, Joel D ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomagnification; Mesocosms; Methylmercury; Stable isotopes; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; LAKES; NUTRITION;

BIOCONCENTRATION; FOOD WEB; HUMAN COMSUMPTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

MERCURY (METAL);

FRESH WATER; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ISOTOPE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

ALGA; BIOACCUMULATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HEAVY METAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CALCULATION; DAPHNIA; DENSITY; FOOD WEB; INORGANIC NUTRIENT; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; PERIPHYTON; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; COPEPODA; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; IODIDES; ISOTOPES; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PHOSPHORUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 14644425912     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.07.025     Document Type: Article

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