In situ production of methylmercury within a stream channel in Northern California

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 6998-7004

  Tsui, Martin Tsz Ki ^a   Finlay, Jacques C ^a   Balogh, Steven J ^b   Nollet, Yabing H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Metropolitan Council Environmental Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC FOOD WEB; BASEFLOWS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; CALIFORNIA; CLADOPHORA GLOMERATA; DRAINAGE BASIN; HOTSPOTS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU PRODUCTION; METHYL MERCURY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NATURAL STREAMS; PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SEMI-ARID REGION; STREAM CHANNELS; STREAM FOOD WEB; TOXIC COMPOUNDS; WATER TEMPERATURES; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

ARID REGIONS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CATCHMENTS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); ECOSYSTEMS; HYDRAULICS; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS; PRODUCTIVITY; TOXICITY; WETLANDS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

METHYLMERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; DRAINAGE BASIN; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; METHYLMERCURY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RIVER POLLUTION; STREAM CHANNEL; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CLADOPHORA GLOMERATA; EPIPHYTE; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; NONHUMAN; PRODUCTIVITY; RIVER; STREAM (RIVER); WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; RIVERS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

CALIFORNIA; SOUTH FORK EEL RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; CLADOPHORA GLOMERATA;

EID: 77956535330     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101374y     Document Type: Article

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