Response to comment on climate change and mercury accumulation in Canadian high and subarctic lakes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 6705-6706

  Kirk, Jane L ^a   Muir, Derek C G ^a   Antoniades, Dermot ^b   Douglas, Marianne S V ^c   Evans, Marlene S ^a   Jackson, Togwell A ^a   Kling, Hedy ^d   Lamoureux, Scott ^e   Lim, Darlene S S ^f   Pienitz, Reinhard ^b   Smol, John P ^e   Stewart, Kailey ^e   Wang, Xiaowa ^a   Yang, Fan ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d Algal Taxonomy and Ecology   (Canada)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DISULFIDE; HYDROGEN; KEROGEN; MERCURY; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN;

ALGA; ARCTIC; CANADA; CELL WALL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; DIATOM; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LAKE; LAKE SEDIMENT; MICROFOSSIL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PETROLOGY; PLANT; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WILDLIFE;

EID: 79960949599     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202053c     Document Type: Note

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