The burning question: Does burning before flooding lower methyl mercury production and bioaccumulation?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 407-417

  Mailman, Mariah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Drew)   (Canada)

Author keywords

Burning; Chironomid larvae; Dissolved organic matter; Emerging insects; Flooding; Hydroelectric reservoirs; Methyl mercury; Mitigation; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HYDROELECTRIC AND GAS TURBINE COMBINED POWER PLANTS; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; MERCURY (METAL); ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; VEGETATION;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHIRONOMID LARVAE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; EMERGING INSECTS; FOOD WEB; HYDROELECTRIC RESERVOIRS; METHYL MERCURY; MITIGATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

MINE FLOODING;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON; PROPANE; SURFACE WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BURNING; FISH; FLOODING; MESOCOSM; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FIRE ECOLOGY; FLOODING; FOOD WEB; MESOCOSM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; INSECTS; LARVA; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NATURAL DISASTERS; PLANTS; SOIL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 33746611719     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.09.070     Document Type: Article

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