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Title: | Tree rings, Populus nigra L., as mercury data logger in aquatic environments: Case study of an historically contaminated environment |
Author: | Abreu, S. N. Soares, A. M. V. M. Nogueira, A. J. A. Morgado, F. |
Keywords: | Aquatic environment Data-logger Dendrochemistry Mercury Tree rings |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Abstract: | In this study, a tree (Populus nigra L.) has been presented as data logger of mercury release in aquatic environments using tree rings chemistry to provide chronological historical monitoring of mercury discharge from a chlor-alkali industrial effluent to a coastal lagoon. Tree rings (Populus nigra L.) as mercury data logger is suggested by mercury accumulation trends in the tree rings reflecting the industrial plant capacity increments in the early stages of mercury discharges and enhancing industrial plant controls to minimize mercury discharges in the last two decades after imposed global regulations on mercury emissions. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/5460 |
ISSN: | 0007-4861 |
Appears in Collections: | CESAM - Artigos DBio - Artigos Ria de Aveiro - Artigos |
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