Seasonal variation of monomethylmercury concentrations in surface sediments of the Tagus Estuary (Portugal)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 380-383

  Canário, João ^a   Branco, Vasco ^a   Vale, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Monomethylmercury; Seasonal effect; Surface sediments; Tagus Estuary

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTUARIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MERCURY (METAL); METHYLATION; PH EFFECTS;

MONOMETHYLMERCURY; SEASONAL EFFECT; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TAGUS ESTUARY;

SEDIMENTS;

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; INVERTEBRATE; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT;

ARTICLE; ESTUARY; FOOD WEB; INVERTEBRATE; METHYLATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PH; PORTUGAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEUROTOXINS; PORTUGAL; RIVERS; SEASONS; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TAGUS ESTUARY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34247872909     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.11.023     Document Type: Article

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