Mercury cycling in a flooded rice paddy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Rothenberg, Sarah E ^a,b   Feng, Xinbin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOODED SOIL; IRON; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; MINING; OXIDATION; PADDY FIELD; PH; POREWATER; REDUCTION; REWETTING; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFIDE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CHINA; GUIZHOU; WANSHAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84863498300     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001800     Document Type: Article

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