Assessment of mercury and methylmercury pollution with zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) in the Ebro River (NE Spain) impacted by industrial hazardous dumps

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 178-184

  Carrasco, Luis ^a   Díez, Sergi ^a,b   Soto, David X ^c   Catalan, Jordi ^c   Bayona, Josep M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Ebro River; Mercury; Methylmercury; Trophic transfer; Zebra mussel

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FOOD ADDITIVES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; RIVERS;

BIOAVAILABILITY; EBRO RIVER; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; TROPHIC TRANSFER; ZEBRA MUSSEL;

RIVER POLLUTION;

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIVALVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD WEB; HAZARDOUS WASTE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTION EFFECT; RIVER POLLUTION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DREISSENA; FOOD WEB; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SPAIN; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; DREISSENA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; RIVERS; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EBRO RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

DREISSENA POLYMORPHA;

EID: 56249085542     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.07.031     Document Type: Article

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