Taking the trophic bypass: Aquatic-terrestrial linkage reduces methylmercury in a terrestrial food web

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 151-159

  Bartrons, Mireia ^a,b   Gratton, Claudio ^a   Spiesman, Brian J ^a   Zanden, M Jake Vander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aquatic terrestrial linkages; Ecological tracer; Food web; Iceland; Methylmercury; Spider; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ART; BIOACCUMULATION; FOOD WEB; HABITAT QUALITY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; METHYLMERCURY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC STATUS;

ICELAND;

ACARI; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; LINYPHIIDAE; LYCOSIDAE; OPILIONES;

METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALS; CHEMISTRY; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; ICELAND; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIDERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALS; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; ICELAND; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; SPIDERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84922061197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0038.1     Document Type: Article

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