Mercury stable isotopes in seabird eggs reflect a gradient from terrestrial geogenic to oceanic mercury reservoirs

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 5327-5335

  Day, Rusty D ^a,c   Roseneau, David G ^b   Berail, Sylvain ^c   Hobson, Keith A ^d   Donard, Olivier F X ^c   Vander Pol, Stacy S ^a   Pugh, Rebecca S ^a   Moors, Amanda J ^a   Long, Stephen E ^e   Becker, Paul R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SOURCE; COASTAL EMBAYMENTS; ELEVATED MERCURY; FOOD WEBS; GEOGENIC; STABLE ISOTOPES; URIA SPP;

CARBON; ISOTOPES;

MERCURY (METAL);

CARBON; MERCURY; NITROGEN; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CARBON ISOTOPE; COLONY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EGG; FOOD WEB; GEOGENIC SOURCE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NITROGEN ISOTOPE; RESERVOIR; SEABIRD; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; EGG; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FOOD WEB; GEOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RESERVOIR; SEA; SEABIRD; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ISOTOPE LABELING; MERCURY; MERCURY ISOTOPES; OCEANS AND SEAS; OVUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALASKA; NORTON SOUND; UNITED STATES; YUKON RIVER;

LARIDAE; URIA;

EID: 84861115927     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es2047156     Document Type: Article

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