Relationship between wetlands and mercury in brook trout

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-103

  Castro, Mark S ^a   Hilderbrand, Robert H ^a   Thompson, Joe ^a   Heft, A ^a   Rivers, S E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

BENTHOS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; STREAMWATER; WATER FLOW; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROUT; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; INVERTEBRATES; MARYLAND; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; TROUT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; SAVAGE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 33845583643     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-006-0057-8     Document Type: Article

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