Impacts of land uses on mercury retention in long-time cultivated soils, brazilian amazon

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 224, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Comte, Irina ^a   Lucotte, Marc ^a   Davidson, Robert ^a,b   Reis De Carvalho, Claúdio José ^c   De Assis Oliveira, Francisco ^d   Rousseau, Guillaume X ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Biodome de Montreal   (Canada)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^d University of Agricultural Sciences (UFRA)   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Ancient colonization; Chop and mulch; Mercury; Slash and burn; Soil

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; CROPS; CULTIVATION; LAND USE; SOILS;

AMAZON; ANCIENT COLONIZATION; CHOP-AND-MULCH; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY CONTAMINATION; SLASH-AND-BURN;

MERCURY (METAL);

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; MERCURY;

COLONIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MULCH; RETENTION; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROPLAND; CULTIVATED LAND; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST SOIL; PASTURELAND; POLLUTION MONITORING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL POLLUTANT; SURFACE SOIL; VOLATILIZATION;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

EID: 84875155124     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-013-1515-3     Document Type: Article

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