Development of a mercury speciation, fate, and biotic uptake (BIOTRANSPEC) model: Application to Lahontan Reservoir (Nevada, USA)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2260-2273

  Gandhi, Nilima ^a   Bhavsar, Satyendra P ^a   Diamond, Miriam L ^a   Kuwabara, James S ^b   Marvin DiPasquale, Mark ^b   Krabbenhoft, David P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Fate transport; Mercury; Modeling; Speciation complexation

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE INTERFACES;

BIOTIC UPTAKE; DEMETHYLATION; INTERNAL LOADING; METAL TRANSPORT; SURFACE AQUATIC SYSTEMS;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; COMPLEXATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FISH; IRON; MANGANESE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); WATER COLUMN; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEVADA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CARSON RIVER; LAHONTAN BASIN; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36148984986     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/06-468R.1     Document Type: Article

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