Effect of bioirrigation on sediment - Water exchange of methylmercury in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3669-3674

  Benoit, Janina M ^a   Shull, David H ^b   Harvey, Rebecca M ^b,c   Beal, Samuel A ^a  

^a WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-IRRIGATION; COASTAL MARINE SEDIMENTS; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; CT SCANNING; DIFFUSIVE FLUX; FLUX CORE; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; FOOD WEBS; MASSACHUSETTS; METHYL MERCURY; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NEAR-SURFACE; NEARSHORE; POPULATION DENSITIES; PORE WATERS; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE; TOTAL FLUX; WATER COLUMNS; WATER EXCHANGE;

DISSOLUTION; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; RADON; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATER;

SEDIMENTS;

METHYLMERCURY; SULFIDE; SURFACE WATER; WATER;

BIOTURBATION; BURROW; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLUX MEASUREMENT; HARBOR; INCUBATION; METHYLMERCURY; POREWATER; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; DIFFUSION; FOOD WEB; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

BOSTON; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENT; GASES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MASSACHUSETTS; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; POROSITY; RIVERS; SOLUBILITY; SULFIDES; WATER;

BOSTON HARBOR; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66249093834     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es803552q     Document Type: Article

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