Mercury concentrations in commercial fish species of Lake Phewa, Nepal

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 272-277

  Sharma, Chhatra Mani ^a,b   Basnet, Suresh ^c   Kang, Shichang ^a   Rosseland, Bjørn Olav ^c   Zhang, Qianggong ^a   Pan, Ke ^d   Borgstrøm, Reidar ^c   Li, Qing ^a   Wang, Wen Xiong ^d   Huang, Jie ^a   Teien, Hans Christian ^c   Sharma, Subodh ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Biomagnification; Commercial fish; Lake Phewa; Mercury

Indexed keywords

FISH; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS;

AFRICAN CATFISHES; BIOMAGNIFICATION; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; COMMERCIAL FISH; FISH COMMUNITIES; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TOTAL MERCURIES;

LAKE POLLUTION;

CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; MASTACEMBELUS ARMATUS; NOTACANTHIDAE; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PISCES; TILAPIA; TOR PUTITORA;

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LAKE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; NEPAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; LAKES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEPAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84883143367     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-013-1055-y     Document Type: Article

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