Anthropogenic impact of mercury accumulation in fish from the Rio Madeira and Rio Negro Rivers (Amazonia)

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 243-254

  Dórea, José G ^a   Barbosa, Antonio C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Fish; Floodplain; Gold mining; Hg; Inundation; Rio Madeira; Rio Negro

Indexed keywords

GOLD; RIVER WATER;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BRAZIL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD WEB; HABITAT; MERCURIALISM; MINING; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RESERVOIR; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEASON; SEDIMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; MERCURY; RIVERS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CICHLA; HOPLIAS MALABARICUS; MYLEUS; POTAMORHINA LATIOR; TRIPORTHEUS ELONGATUS;

EID: 33947331442     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02685999     Document Type: Article

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