Transfer of mercury and methylmercury along macroinvertebrate food chains in a floodplain lake of the Beni River, Bolivian Amazonia

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3382-3391

  Molina, Carlos Israel ^a,b,c   Gibon, François Marie ^b,d   Duprey, Jean Louis ^b   Dominguez, Eduardo ^c   Guimarães, Jean Remy D ^e   Roulet, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^b Institut de recherche pour le developpement Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Macroinvertebrates; Macrophytes; Periphyton; Sediment; Seston; Trophic chain

Indexed keywords

AMAZONIA; BIOMAGNIFICATION; BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; DRY SEASONS; FLOODPLAIN LAKES; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD SOURCES; MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MACROPHYTES; METHYL MERCURY; OPEN WATER; ORGANIC MATTER; PERIPHYTON; PERIPHYTONS; RIVER BASINS; STABLE ISOTOPES; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPHIC POSITION; VEGETATION BELT; WET SEASON;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ISOTOPES; LAKE POLLUTION; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ECOLOGY;

CARBON 13; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; NITROGEN 15; ORGANIC MATTER;

CARBON ISOTOPE; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD CHAIN; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PERIPHYTON; SEDIMENT; SESTON; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BOLIVIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LAKE SEDIMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHYTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANIMAL; FLOODING; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; FLOODS; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATES; MERCURY;

AMAZONIA; BENI RIVER; BOLIVIA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953702054     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.019     Document Type: Article

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