Retrospective monitoring of mercury in fish from selected European freshwater and estuary sites

Chemosphere

Volumn 134, Issue , 2015, Pages 427-434

  Nguetseng, Regine ^a   Fliedner, Annette ^a   Knopf, Burkhard ^a   Lebreton, Benoit ^b   Quack, Markus ^c   Rüdel, Heinz ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abramis brama; Biota monitoring; Environmental quality standard; Mercury; Methylmercury; Trend monitoring

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; QUALITY CONTROL;

ABRAMIS BRAMA; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STANDARDS; MERCURY ANALYZERS; MERCURY IN FISHES; METHYL MERCURY; STABLE ISOTOPE DILUTION; TREND MONITORING; TRENDS OVER TIME;

LAKES;

FRESH WATER; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; STABLE ISOTOPE; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOACCUMULATION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION MONITORING;

ARTICLE; DILUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; EUROPEAN; FISH; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LAKE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SEA BREAM; TIME; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; WATER POLLUTANT;

EUROPE;

ABRAMIS BRAMA; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; FISHES; FRESH WATER; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84930583751     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.04.094     Document Type: Article

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