Estimation of the major source and sink of methylmercury in the Florida Everglades

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5885-5893

  Li, Yanbin ^a   Yin, Yongguang ^b   Liu, Guangliang ^a   Tachiev, Georgio ^a   Roelant, David ^a   Jiang, Guibin ^b   Cai, Yong ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION TECHNIQUE; DEMETHYLATION; FLORIDA EVERGLADES; HG CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY METHYLATION; METHYL MERCURY; PERIPHYTONS; PRODUCTION RATES; SATURATED SOILS; SINK-IN; SOURCE AND SINK; STABLE ISOTOPES; STANDING WATERS; WATER COLUMNS;

ALKYLATION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METHYLATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SOILS; WATER QUALITY;

ESTIMATION;

ISOTOPE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; METHYLMERCURY; PERIPHYTON; SOIL POLLUTION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; WATER COLUMN; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL SINK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DEMETHYLATION; ECOSYSTEM; PERIPHYTON; UNITED STATES;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOCCULATION; FLORIDA; KINETICS; MERCURY ISOTOPES; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; SOIL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861862459     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204410x     Document Type: Article

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