Trophodynamics of mercury and other trace elements in a pelagic food chain from the Baltic Sea

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 6267-6274

  Nfon, Erick ^a   Cousins, Ian T ^a   Järvinen, Olli ^b   Mukherjee, Arun B ^c   Verta, Matti ^b   Broman, Dag ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Biodilution; Biomagnification; Food chain; Mercury; Metal; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; BIODILUTION; BIOMAGNIFICATION; FOOD CHAIN; MERCURY; STABLE ISOTOPES;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; CHROMIUM; ECOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MERCURY (METAL); POLLUTION; TRACE ANALYSIS; ZINC;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; NICKEL; NITROGEN 15; TITANIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOD CHAIN; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATED ANIMAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERRING; LIPID ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PELAGIC FISH; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; MERCURY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

CLUPEIDAE; MYSIS;

EID: 70350303320     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.08.032     Document Type: Article

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