Beaver ponds increase methylmercury concentrations in Canadian shield streams along vegetation and pond-age gradients

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5605-5611

  Virginie, R O Y ^a   Amyot, Marc ^a   Carignan, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC WATER; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FORESTED AREA; LABILE ORGANIC MATTER; LANDSCAPE DISTURBANCE; METHYLMERCURY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN DEPLETION; PRODUCTION SITES; SAMPLING SITE; STREAMWATER CHEMISTRY; TOTAL MERCURIES; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; WATERBODIES;

ALKYLATION; DISSOLUTION; LAKES; LANDFORMS; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METHYLATION; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; WATERSHEDS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ANION; CATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; SULFATE;

ACID WATER; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLOOD; HETEROTROPHY; IMPOUNDMENT; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRATE; NITRITE; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POND; SAMPLING; STREAM; SULFATE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONIFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; FOREST; HETEROTROPHY; METHYLATION; POND; STREAM (RIVER); VEGETATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NITRATES; NITRITES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXYGEN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RODENTIA; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

CASTORIDAE;

EID: 68049148773     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901193x     Document Type: Article

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