Trophic relationships and mercury biomagnification in Brazilian tropical coastal food webs

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 291-302

  Bisi, Tatiana Lemos ^a,b   Lepoint, Gilles ^c   Azevedo, Alexandre De Freitas ^b   Dorneles, Paulo Renato ^a,b   Flach, Leonardo ^d   Das, Krishna ^c   Malm, Olaf ^a   Lailson Brito, José ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d Projeto Boto cinza   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Food web; Guiana dolphin; Heavy metal; Stable isotope; Tropical ecosystems

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BIOMAGNIFICATION; CARBON AND NITROGEN; COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS; COASTAL FOOD WEB; DETRITIVOROUS; DOLPHIN SPECIES; FEEDING HABITS; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; FOOD WEBS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MACRO-ALGAE; MAGNIFICATION FACTORS; MERCURY FLOW; N VALUE; STABLE ISOTOPES; TOTAL MERCURIES; TROPHIC RELATIONSHIPS; TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS; GUIANA DOLPHINS; MERCURY BIOMAGNIFICATION; TROPHIC MAGNIFICATIONS;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES); ECOSYSTEMS; HEAVY METALS; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN FIXATION; TROPICS; CARBON; FISH; MERCURY (METAL); NITROGEN;

MERCURY (METAL); ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYANOBACTERIUM; DETRITIVORY; FOOD WEB; MACROALGA; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC STATUS; DOLPHIN; FOOD CHAIN; HEAVY METAL; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

BRAZIL; GUANABARA BAY; ILHA GRANDE BAY; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL]; SEPETIBA BAY;

CEPHALOPODA; CRUSTACEA; CYANOBACTERIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 83455261912     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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