Sources and transfers of methylmercury in adjacent river and forest food webs

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 10957-10964

  Tsui, Martin Tsz Ki ^a   Blum, Joel D ^a   Kwon, Sae Yun ^a   Finlay, Jacques C ^b   Balogh, Steven J ^c   Nollet, Yabing H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Metropolitan Council Environmental Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEBS; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPE VALUES; ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; METHYL MERCURY; MIXING MODELS; NATURAL ECOSYSTEM; TOXIC METHYLMERCURY;

ALKYLATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METHYLATION; RIVERS;

FORESTRY;

METHYLMERCURY; RAIN;

FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METHYLMERCURY; MIXING; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ECOSYSTEM; FOG; FOOD WEB; FOREST; FRACTIONATION; HABITAT; METHYLATION; PRECIPITATION; RIVER; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; MERCURY ISOTOPES; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; RIVERS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TREES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALIFORNIA; FOOD; FORESTS; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; MERCURY; METHANE; METHYLATION; RIVERS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ARANEAE;

EID: 84870023855     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3019836     Document Type: Article

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