Short-term responses to watershed logging on biomass mercury and methylmercury accumulation by periphyton in boreal lakes

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1734-1745

  Desrosiers, Mélanie ^a,c   Planas, Dolors ^a   Mucci, Alfonso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; PERIPHYTON; RUNOFF; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

CANADIAN SHIELD; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33749260339     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F06-077     Document Type: Article

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