Mercury and flooding cycles in the Tapajós river basin, Brazilian Amazon: The role of periphyton of a floating macrophyte (Paspalum repens)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2746-2753

  Coelho Souza, Sérgio A ^a   Guimarães, Jean R D ^a   Miranda, Márcio R ^a   Poirier, Hugo ^b   Mauro, Jane B N ^a   Lucotte, Marc ^b   Mergler, Donna ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

13C 15N stable isotopes; 203Hg; 3H leucine incorporation; Bacterial activity; Clear water river; Floodplain lakes

Indexed keywords

203HG; 3H-LEUCINE INCORPORATION; BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; CLEAR-WATER RIVER; FLOODPLAIN LAKES; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ALKYLATION; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIOLOGY; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ISOTOPES; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS;

METHYLATION;

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD CHAIN; MACROPHYTE; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PERIPHYTON; RIVER BASIN; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FLOODING; MACROPHYTE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PASPALUM; PASPALUM REPENS; PERIPHYTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

BRAZIL; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOODS; MERCURY; NITROGEN; PASPALUM; RIVERS; SEASONS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BRAZIL; TAPAJOS BASIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PASPALUM FLUITANS;

EID: 79957853844     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.03.028     Document Type: Article

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