Mercury in fishes and their diet items from Flathead Lake, Montana

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 349-357

  Stafford, Craig P ^a,c   Hansen, Barry ^b   Stanford, Jack A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Department of Natural Resources ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; DIET; FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

FLATHEAD LAKE; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

COREGONUS; COREGONUS CLUPEAFORMIS; INVERTEBRATA; KATHETOSTOMA GIGANTEUM; PISCES; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1642300745     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/02-156     Document Type: Article

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