Influences of iron, manganese, and dissolved organic carbon on the hypolimnetic cycling of amended mercury

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 177-188

  Chadwick, Shawn P ^a   Babiarz, Chris L ^a   Hurley, James P ^a   Armstrong, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cycling; DOC; Iron; Mercury; METAALICUS; Methylmercury

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DISSOLUTION; IRON; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL);

CYCLING; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON (DOC); METAALICUS; METHYLMERCURY;

WATER POLLUTION;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; IRON; IRON OXIDE; MANGANESE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFIDE;

BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HYPOLIMNION; IRON; MANGANESE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; FILTRATION; LAKE; METHYLATION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPIKE;

CARBON; FRESH WATER; IRON; MANGANESE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; ONTARIO; OXYGEN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 33746601840     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.09.039     Document Type: Article

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