Mercury pollution trends in subarctic lakes in the northern Swedish mountains

Ambio

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 401-405

  Lindeberg, Carola ^a   Bindler, Richard ^a   Bigler, Christian ^a   Rosén, Peter ^a   Renberg, Ingemar ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NINETEENTH CENTURY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SUBARCTIC REGION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 34548244144     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[401:MPTISL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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40. This research was founded by grants from the Centre for Environmental Research (CMF) in Umeå and the Swedish Research Council (VR). We thank Marten Strömgren and Fredrik Lindgren for collecting the samples from Stora Sjöfallel. Johan Rydberg and Johannes Förster for doing some of the carbon and mercury analyses, and the three anonymous reviewers whose comments improved the manuscript. We also would like to thank all other colleagues who have contributed.
41. First submitted 10 April 2006. Accepted for publication 10 March 2007.