Total mercury and monomethylmercury in water, sediments, and hydrophytes from the rivers, estuary, and bay along the Bohai Sea coast, northeastern China

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1702-1711

  Wang, Shaofeng ^a   Jia, Yongfeng ^a   Wang, Shuying ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Wang, He ^a   Zhao, Zhixi ^a   Liu, Bingzhu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; BIOMAGNIFICATION FACTORS; BOHAI SEA; CHLOR-ALKALI; COASTAL REGIONS; CONCENTRATION OF; DRINKING WATER; FOOD CHAIN; HG EMISSION FLUXES; HG MINING; HIGH CONCENTRATION; IN-PLANTS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MERCURY CONTAMINATION; MONOMETHYLMERCURY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SEDIMENT PROFILES; TOTAL MERCURIES; WATER SAMPLES;

BIOCHEMISTRY; COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LANDFORMS; MINING; POTABLE WATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; ZINC; ZINC SMELTING;

MERCURY (METAL);

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC PLANT; BIOACCUMULATION; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOOD CHAIN; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SMELTING; WATER POLLUTION;

BOHAI SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 68949211802     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2009.04.037     Document Type: Article

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