Mercury temporal trends in top predator fish of the Laurentian Great Lakes

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1568-1576

  Zananski, Tiffany J ^a   Holsen, Thomas M ^b   Hopke, Philip K ^a   Crimmins, Bernard S ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Clarkson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Lakes; Lake trout; Mercury; Salvelinus namaycush; Sander vitreus; Walleye

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

BIOMONITORING; EMISSION CONTROL; FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PREDATOR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE SEDIMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROUT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; GREAT LAKES REGION; LAKES; LINEAR MODELS; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

APOSTLE ISLANDS; CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; QUEBEC [CANADA]; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH; SANDER VITREUS; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 80054883652     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: 15733017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-011-0751-9     Document Type: Article

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