Mercury concentrations are low in commercial fish species of Lake Ziway, Ethiopia, but stable isotope data indicated biomagnification

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 953-959

  Tadiso, Tariku Markos ^a,b   Borgstrøm, Reidar ^a   Rosseland, Bjørn Olav ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Biodilution; Biomagnification; East Africa; Mercury

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; MERCURY; NITROGEN 15;

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FISH; FOOD WEB; GROWTH RATE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NITROGEN ISOTOPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMAGNIFICATION; BODY SIZE; CATFISH; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD WEB; GOLDFISH; GROWTH RATE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LAKE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOMACH CONTENT; TILAPIA; TILAPIA ZILLII; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CATFISHES; CICHLIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHIOPIA; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GOLDFISH; MERCURY; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; TILAPIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; LAKE ZIWAY;

CARASSIUS AURATUS; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; CYPRINIDAE; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TILAPIA ZILLII;

EID: 79955521897     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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