Rapid, efficient growth reduces mercury concentrations in stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Ward, Darren M ^a   Nislow, Keith H ^b   Chen, Celia Y ^a   Folt, Carol L ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FOOD WEB; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; MASS BALANCE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EFFECT; SALMONID; STREAMWATER; TOXIN;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 77951802184     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-032.1     Document Type: Article

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