Determination of mercury methylation potentials in the water column of lakes across Canada

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 111-125

  Eckley, Chris S ^a,b   Hintelmann, Holger ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mercury; Methylation; Methylmercury; Stable isotope; Water column

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); RATE CONSTANTS;

METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; STABLE ISOTOPES; WATER COLUMNS;

WATER ANALYSIS;

LAKE WATER; METHYLMERCURY; SULFATE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; HYPOLIMNION; INCUBATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFATE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; WATER COLUMN;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CANADA; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CANADA; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; MERCURY ISOTOPES; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; SULFATES; SULFIDES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33746611999     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.09.042     Document Type: Article

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