The cost of gold: Mercury contamination of fishes in a Neotropical river food web

Abstract In South America, mercury contamination due to gold mining operations is a threat to both biodiversity and human health. We examined mercury (Hg) concentrations in fishes that constitute important subsistence fisheries from mined and non-mined tributaries in the middle Mazaruni River, Guyan...

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Main Author: Montaña,Carmen G. (author)
Other Authors: Liverpool,Elford (author), Taphorn,Donald C. (author), Schalk,Christopher M. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biomagnification
Gold mining
Guiana Shield
Stable isotopes
Trophic structure
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252021000300204
Country:Brazil
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