Mercury export from the Yukon River Basin and potential response to a changing climate

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 9262-9267

  Schuster, Paul F ^a   Striegl, Robert G ^a   Aiken, George R ^a   Krabbenhoft, David P ^a   Dewild, John F ^a   Butler, Kenna ^a   Kamark, Ben ^a   Dornblaser, Mark ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGING CLIMATE; CHRONIC EFFECTS; CLIMATE WARMING; HG FLUX; MERCURY EXPORT; METHYL MERCURY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER BASINS; WATER DISCHARGES;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC CARBON; PERMAFROST; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

CARBON; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; LATITUDE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MOBILIZATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PERMAFROST; RIVER BASIN; WATERSHED;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIOTA; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; MEASUREMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERMAFROST; RESERVOIR; RIVER BASIN; SPRING; STANDARD; WARMING; WATERSHED;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

YUKON BASIN;

EID: 80055081126     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202068b     Document Type: Article

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