Mercury biogeochemistry: Paradigm shifts, outstanding issues and research needs

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 345, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 213-224

  Sonke, Jeroen E ^a   Heimbürger, Lars Eric ^a   Dommergue, Aurélien ^b  

^a Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Arctic; Biogeochemistry; Cycling; Exposure; Isotopes; Mercury; Modeling; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; ISOTOPE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MODELING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEAFOOD; TOXICITY; TOXICOLOGY;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84883289188     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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