Mercury pollution in fish from South China Sea: Levels, species-specific accumulation, and possible sources

Environmental Research

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 160-164

  Liu, Jinling ^a   Xu, Xiangrong ^a   Yu, Shen ^b   Cheng, Hefa ^c   Hong, Yiguo ^a   Feng, Xinbin ^d  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Marine wild fish; Mercury bioaccumulation; Mercury pollution; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BODY SIZE; FISH; METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOACCUMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INCINERATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MERCURY POLLUTION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONHUMAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER CONTENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

MARINE WILD FISH; MERCURY BIOACCUMULATION; MERCURY POLLUTION; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

ANIMALS; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84897932335     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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