Trophic transfer and accumulation of mercury in ray species in coastal waters affected by historic mercury mining (Gulf of Trieste, northern Adriatic Sea)

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4163-4176

  Horvat, Milena ^a   Degenek, Nina ^b   Lipej, Lovrenc ^b   Snoj Tratnik, Janja ^a   Faganeli, Jadran ^b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Fish; Mercury; Methylmercury; Northern Adriatic; Rays

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOACCUMULATION; COASTAL WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; MINING; PLANKTON; POLLUTION EFFECT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ADRIATIC SEA; GULF OF TRIESTE; IDRIJA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SLOVENIA;

CEPOLA MACROPHTHALMA; CHONDRICHTHYES; DASYATIS PASTINACA; ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ENCRASICOLUS; HEXAPLEX TRUNCULUS; INVERTEBRATA; MUREX; MYLIOBATINAE; MYLIOBATIS AQUILA; PASTINACA; PHYLLONOTUS TRUNCULUS; PTEROMYLAEUS BOVINUS; PTEROPLATYTRYGON VIOLACEA;

MERCURY; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METABOLISM; MINING; SKATES (FISH); SLOVENIA; WATER POLLUTANT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MERCURY; MINING; SEAWATER; SKATES (FISH); SLOVENIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84895868599     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-2262-0     Document Type: Article

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