Bioavailable mercury cycling in polar snowpacks

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2150-2156

  Larose, Catherine ^a,b,d   Dommergue, Aurélien ^a   Marusczak, Nicolas ^a   Coves, Jacques ^c   Ferrari, Christophe P ^a   Schneider, Dominique ^a,b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^d ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HEALTH; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; FIELD CAMPAIGN; MERCURY CYCLING; POLAR REGIONS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SNOW SAMPLES; SURFACE SNOW; WET AND DRY;

BIOSENSORS; SNOW; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; BIOAVAILABILITY; HEALTH RISK; LATITUDE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RESERVOIR; SNOWPACK; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY DEPLETION EVENT; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOSENSOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; POLAR ICE CAP; POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ARCTIC REGIONS; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; SNOW;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79953855802     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103016x     Document Type: Article

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