Total mercury and methylmercury dynamics in upland-peatland watersheds during snowmelt

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 225-241

  Mitchell, Carl P J ^a   Branfireun, Brian A ^a   Kolka, Randall K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic carbon; Mercury; Methylmercury; Peatland; Snowmelt; Watershed hydrology

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROGRAPH; MASS BALANCE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; PEATLAND; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POREWATER; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MERCURIALIS ANNUA;

EID: 55349116032     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-008-9246-z     Document Type: Article

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