A description of mercury in fishes from the Madeira River Basin, Amazon, Brazil Um estudo descritivo do mercúrio em peixes da bacia do Rio Madeira, Amazônia, Brasil

A description of mercury in fishes from the Madeira River Basin, Amazon, Brazil Um estudo descritivo do mercúrio em peixes da bacia do Rio Madeira, Amazônia, Brasil

Over the last 20 years several projects carried on the Madeira River basin in the Amazon produced a great amount data on total Hg concentration in different fish species. In this paper we discuss temporal trends in Hg contamination and its relation to body weight in some of those fishes, showing tha...

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Main Authors: Wanderley Rodrigues Bastos, Mauro de Freitas Rebelo, Márlon de Freitas Fonseca, Ronaldo de Almeida, Olaf Malm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia 2008-01-01
Series:Acta Amazonica
Subjects:
Peixe
Mercúrio
biomagnificação
Rio Madeira
Amazônia
Fish
mercury
Biomagnification
Madeira River
Amazon
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