Bioaccumulation and transport of contaminants: Migrating sockeye salmon as vectors of mercury

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 8840-8846

  Baker, Matthew R ^a   Schindler, Daniel E ^a   Holtgrieve, Gordon W ^a   Louis, Vincent L S T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CONTAMINANT FLUX; CONTAMINANT LOADINGS; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DENSITY DEPENDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER SYSTEMS; HEALTH IMPLICATIONS; HG CONCENTRATIONS; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE HISTORY STAGES; RIVER SYSTEMS; SOCKEYE SALMON; TOXIC CONTAMINANTS;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; IMPURITIES; MARINE POLLUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MIGRATORY SPECIES; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER SYSTEM; SALMONID; SMOLT; SURVIVAL;

ADULT ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTAMINATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LIFE HISTORY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; SALMON; SMOLT; WILDLIFE;

AGING; ALASKA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; RIVERS; SALMON; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES; WOOD RIVER;

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA;

EID: 72249115370     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901798f     Document Type: Article

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