Mercury and selenium concentrations in biofilm, macroinvertebrates, and fish collected in the yankee fork of the Salmon River, Idaho, USA, and their potential effects on fish health

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 130-139

  Rhea, Darren T ^a,d   Farag, Aïda M ^a   Harper, David D ^a   McConnell, Elizabeth ^b,e   Brumbaugh, William G ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b United States Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^c Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

^d WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^e Headwaters Fish Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; SELENIUM;

ABNORMALITY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOFILM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EFFECT; SELENIUM; TELEOST; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CELL PROLIFERATION; DRY WEIGHT; FISH; GILL; GONAD; HABITAT; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; LIVER; LIVER TOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; UNITED STATES; WATERSHED;

IDAHO; SALMON RIVER [IDAHO]; UNITED STATES; YANKEE FORK;

COTTUS CONFUSUS; INVERTEBRATA; PROSOPIUM WILLIAMSONI; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84871792821     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: 14320703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-012-9816-x     Document Type: Article

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