Methylmercury production below the mixed layer in the North Pacific Ocean

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 879-884

  Blum, Joel D ^a   Popp, Brian N ^b   Drazen, Jeffrey C ^b   Anela Choy, C ^b   Johnson, Marcus W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COASTAL SEDIMENT; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METHYLMERCURY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MIXED LAYER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84885014308     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1918     Document Type: Article

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