The interaction rainfall vs. weight as determinant of total mercury concentration in fish from a tropical estuary

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 167, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-6

  Barletta, M ^a   Lucena, L R R ^a   Costa, M F ^a   Barbosa Cintra, S C T ^a   Cysneiros, F J A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Global climatic change; Goiana Estuary; South America; Trichiurus lepturus; Weibull regression model

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DATA SETS; ECOLOGICAL HEALTH; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FISH MUSCLES; MERCURY CONTAMINATION; MERCURY LOADS; MUSCLE TISSUES; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PREGNANT WOMAN; RAINFALL REGIME; REGRESSION MODEL; SOUTH AMERICA; TOP PREDATOR; TOTAL MERCURIES; TOTAL RAINFALL; TRICHIURUS LEPTURUS; VULNERABLE GROUPS; WEIBULL;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CONSERVATION; ESTUARIES; FISH; MUSCLE; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; RAIN;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTUARY; FISH; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NATURE CONSERVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEIBULL THEORY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARY; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FISH; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROBABILITY; TRICHIURUS LEPTURUS; TROPICS; WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; MERCURY; MUSCLES; RAIN; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

SOUTH AMERICA;

TRICHIURUS LEPTURUS;

EID: 84860525708     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.03.033     Document Type: Article

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