Mercury bioacumulation in four tissues of Podocnemis erythrocephala (Podocnemididae: Testudines) as a function of water parameters

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1048-1054

  Schneider, Larissa ^a   Belger, Lauren ^a   Burger, Joanna ^b   Vogt, Richard C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Bioaccumulation; Mercury; Methylation; Ph; Physical factors; Podocnemis; Rio Negro; Size; Turtles

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD; CATCHMENTS; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); DISSOLUTION; ECOLOGY; FIRE HAZARDS; LIVER; MERCURY (METAL); METHYLATION; OCEAN HABITATS; ORGANIC CARBON; RADAR IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; SOILS; TRACKING RADAR; WATER ANALYSIS;

AMAZON; MERCURY; PHYSICAL FACTORS; PODOCNEMIS; RIO NEGRO; SIZE; TURTLES;

MUSCLE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON; WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOINDICATOR; BLOOD; BODY SIZE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GIS; HEALTH RISK; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MUSCLE; PH; RADAR IMAGERY; TURTLE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOODPLAIN; FOREST; HABITAT; LIMNOLOGY; LIVER; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PH; PODOCNEMIS ERYTHROCEPHALA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SOIL; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIVER; MERCURY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TURTLES;

PODOCNEMIDIDAE; PODOCNEMIS; PODOCNEMIS ERYTHROCEPHALA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 57049154523     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.09.049     Document Type: Article

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