Mercury concentrations in fish species caught at Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent fields

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 320, Issue , 2006, Pages 253-258

  Martins, I ^a   Costa, V ^a   Porteiro, F M ^a   Colaco A ^a   Santos, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Deep sea fish; Lucky Strike; Menez Gwen; Mercury; Mid Atlantic Ridge; Rainbow

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEEP-SEA ORGANISM; FISH; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LUCKY STRIKE FIELD; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; RAINBOW HYDROTHERMAL FIELD;

ANTIMORA ROSTRATA; DEANIA CALCEA; EPIGONUS TELESCOPUS; ETMOPTERUS PRINCEPS; HYDROLAGUS PALLIDUS; MORA MORO; SYNAPHOBRANCHUS KAUPI;

EID: 33749419284     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps320253     Document Type: Article

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