Patterns of mercury and methylmercury bioaccumulation in fish species downstream of a long-term mercury-contaminated site in the lower Ebro River (NE Spain)

Chemosphere

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1642-1649

  Carrasco, Luis ^a   Barata, Carlos ^a   García Berthou, Emili ^b   Tobias, Aurelio ^a   Bayona, Josep M ^a   Díez, Sergi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Ebro River; Fish; Mercury; Methylmercury; Spain

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMARKERS; FISH; LINEAR REGRESSION; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER POLLUTION;

BIOAVAILABILITY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EBRO RIVER; METHYL MERCURY; MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; SPAIN; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS;

RIVERS;

CHLORINE; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ECOTOXICOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PISCIVORE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TELEOST;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; CARP; CATFISH; CONTAMINATION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FISH; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION; RIVER; SPAIN; SPECIES; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TOXICOLOGY;

EBRO RIVER; SPAIN;

CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINUS CARPIO; SILURUS GLANIS;

EID: 80051663466     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.05.022     Document Type: Article

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