Wetland influence on mercury fate and transport in a temperate forested watershed

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-55

  Selvendiran, Pranesh ^a   Driscoll, Charles T ^a   Bushey, Joseph T ^a   Montesdeoca, Mario R ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic carbon; Huntington Forest; Mercury; Methyl mercury; Retention; Season; Sulfate; Wetland

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC CARBON; WETLANDS;

FOREST WETLANDS; HUNTINGTON FOREST; METHYL MERCURY;

WATERSHEDS;

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON;

ABANDONED LAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; GROWING SEASON; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MEADOW; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PEATLAND; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RETENTION; RIPARIAN FOREST; STREAM; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; SEASONS; SOIL; SOLUBILITY; SULFATES; TREES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

MERCURY; POLLUTION; WATER SHEDS; WETLANDS;

HUNTINGTON FOREST; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44749092522     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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