Factors regulating the bioavailability of methylmercury to breeding rusty blackbirds in northeastern wetlands

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 171, Issue , 2012, Pages 148-154

  Edmonds, Samuel Trower ^a,b   O'Driscoll, Nelson J ^a   Hillier, N Kirk ^a   Atwood, Jonathan L ^b   Evers, David C ^b  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidity; Dissolved oxygen; Invertebrates; Mercury bioavailability; Methylmercury; Rusty blackbird

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ECOREGIONS; HG CONCENTRATIONS; INVERTEBRATES; METHYL MERCURY; POPULATION DECLINE; REDOX POTENTIALS; RUSTY BLACKBIRD; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPHIC POSITION; WATER COLUMNS; WATERBODIES;

ACIDITY; ANIMALS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REDOX REACTIONS; WETLANDS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON;

ACIDITY; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; METHYLMERCURY; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIRD; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONDUCTANCE; CONTAMINATED ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PH; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES HABITAT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FOOD CHAIN; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PASSERIFORMES; REPRODUCTION; WETLANDS;

EUPHAGUS CAROLINUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865321098     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.07.044     Document Type: Article

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