Seasonal variation in mercury and food web biomagnification in Lake Ontario, Canada

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 161, Issue , 2012, Pages 178-184

  Zhang, Liang ^a,c   Campbell, Linda M ^a,d   Johnson, Timothy B ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Food web; Great Lakes; Hemimysis; Round goby; Smallmouth bass; Stable carbon isotopes; Stable nitrogen isotopes; Yellow perch

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEBS; GREAT LAKES; HEMIMYSIS; ROUND GOBY; SMALLMOUTH BASS; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES; STABLE NITROGEN ISOTOPE; YELLOW PERCH;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL);

LAKES;

CARBON 13; MERCURY; NITROGEN 15;

BIOTA; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOOD WEB; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NITROGEN ISOTOPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING (SEASON); STABLE ISOTOPE; SUMMER;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PERCH; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING; YELLOW PERCH;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATES; LAKES; MERCURY; ONTARIO; SEASONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO;

APOLLONIA MELANOSTOMUS; HEMIMYSIS; INVERTEBRATA; MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU; PERCA; PERCA FLAVESCENS; PISCES;

EID: 81055137584     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.10.023     Document Type: Article

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