Recent changes in mercury deposition and primary productivity inferred from sediments of lakes from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 173, Issue , 2013, Pages 52-60

  Brazeau, Michelle L ^a   Poulain, Alexandre J ^a   Paterson, Andrew M ^b   Keller, Wendel ^c   Sanei, Hamed ^d   Blais, Jules M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hudson Bay Lowlands; Mercury; Organic carbon; Rock Eval; Sediment

Indexed keywords

HIGHLY-CORRELATED; HUDSON BAY; LAKE SEDIMENTS; MERCURY DEPOSITIONS; ONTARIO , CANADA; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; ROCK-EVAL; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT LAYERS; SEDIMENT ORGANIC MATTERS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL PROFILE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER COLUMNS;

LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CARBON 13; LAKE WATER; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC CARBON;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIFFUSION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENT CORE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER COLUMN;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LAKE; LAKE SEDIMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LAKES; MERCURY; ONTARIO; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ALGAE;

EID: 84870180441     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.09.017     Document Type: Article

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