Spatial trends and impairment assessment of mercury in sport fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3137-3149

  Melwani, A R ^a   Bezalel, S N ^a   Hunt, J A ^a   Grenier, J L ^a   Ichikawa, G ^b   Heim, W ^c   Bonnema, A ^c   Foe, C ^d   Slotton, D G ^e   Davis, J A ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^c MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish; Human health; Mercury; Sacramento San Joaquin Delta; Spatial trends

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCES; HUMAN HEALTH; LARGEMOUTH BASS; MERCURY; PREY-PREDATOR; RAINBOW TROUT; SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA; SPATIAL TRENDS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPORTFISH; TOTAL MERCURIES;

FISH; LANDFORMS; MEATS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER; WATERSHEDS;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; FISH; HEAVY METAL; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EFFECT; RIVER POLLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; FISH; HYDROLOGY; LARGEMOUTH BASS; MERCURIALISM; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; RAINBOW TROUT; RIVER; STRIPED BASS; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; MERCURY; MUSCLES; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALIFORNIA; COSUMNES RIVER; MOKELUMNE RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA; UNITED STATES;

LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; LEPOMIS MICROLOPHUS; MICROPTERUS; MORONE; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 68949198076     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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