Dynamics of mercury fluxes and their controlling factors in large Hg-polluted floodplain areas

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 308-318

  Rinklebe, Jörg ^a,b   During, Anja ^a,b   Overesch, Mark ^b,c   Du Laing, Gijs ^d   Wennrich, Rainer ^b   Stärk, Hans Joachim ^b   Mothes, Sibylle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Elbe river; Hg soil air exchange; TGM seasonality; Wetland soils

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING FACTORS; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; ELBE RIVER; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; FLOOD-PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN SOILS; LABORATORY MICROCOSM; MERCURY FLUXES; MICROCOSM EXPERIMENTS; POLLUTED SITES; SAMPLING TIME; SEASONAL DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOIL-AIR EXCHANGE; TOTAL GASEOUS MERCURIES; WET SOIL; WETLAND SOILS;

AIR; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); EXPERIMENTS; MERCURY (METAL); SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONTENT; WETLANDS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

MERCURY;

FLOODPLAIN; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; WETLAND;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FLOODPLAIN; GAS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MICROCOSM; MOISTURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER CONTENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMANY; MERCURY; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

ELBE RIVER;

EID: 74349131365     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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