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Impact of basin scale and time-weighted mercury metrics on intra-/inter-basin mercury comparisons

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Abstract

Understanding anthropogenic and environmental controls on fluvial Mercury (Hg) bioaccumulation over global and national gradients can be challenging due to the need to integrate discrete-sample results from numerous small scale investigations. Two fundamental issues for such integrative Hg assessments are the wide range of basin scales for included studies and how well discrete samples capture the characteristically high temporal variability of fluvial biogeochemistry, seasonally and over shorter time spans.

Parent Publication

Citation

Bradley, Paul; Brigham, Mark E. 2016. Impact of basin scale and time-weighted mercury metrics on intra-/inter-basin mercury comparisons. In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical  Report  SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 1 p.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/50876