Evidence for regulation of monomethyl mercury by nitrate in a seasonally stratified, eutrophic lake

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 6572-6578

  Todorova, Svetoslava G ^a   Driscoll Jr , Charles T ^a   Matthews, David A ^b   Effler, Steven W ^b   Hines, Mark E ^c   Henry, Elizabeth A ^d  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

^b UPSTATE FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^d EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; COLUMN PROFILES; EUTROPHIC LAKES; LONG TERM RECORDS; MONOMETHYL MERCURY; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE; SULFATE REDUCTION; SULFATE-REDUCING CONDITIONS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LAKES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; REDUCTION;

MERCURY (METAL);

LAKE WATER; METHYLMERCURY; NITRATE; ORGANIC MATTER;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; HYPOLIMNION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NITRATE; ORGANIC MATTER; REDOX CONDITIONS; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); LAKE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEDIMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; FRESH WATER; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEW YORK; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; SEASONS; SULFATES; SULFIDES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

FINGER LAKES; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; ONONDAGA LAKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69549126805     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900887b     Document Type: Article

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