Variation of total mercury concentrations in pig frogs (Rana grylio) across the Florida Everglades, USA

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 345, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 51-59

  Ugarte, Cristina A ^a,c   Rice, Kenneth G ^b   Donnelly, Maureen A ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Everglades National Park   (United States)

Author keywords

Everglades; Frog legs; Pig frogs; Rana; Spatial distribution; Total mercury

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HEALTH RISKS; MERCURY (METAL); MUSCLE; TISSUE; WATER CONSERVATION;

LEG MUSCLES; MARSHES; PIG FROGS; WATER CONSERVATION AREAS (WCA);

BIODIVERSITY;

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; FROG; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY BURDEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; FROG; LEG MUSCLE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MERCURIALISM; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FLORIDA; MALE; MERCURY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANIDAE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALLIGATORINAE; ANURA; CUPRESSUS; RANA GRYLIO; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 20344398441     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.10.015     Document Type: Article

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