Browsing by Author "Deonarine, Amrika"

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Legacy source of mercury in an urban stream-wetland ecosystem in central North Carolina, USA.

Deonarine, Amrika; Hsu-Kim, Heileen; Zhang, Tong; Cai, Yong; Richardson, Curtis J (Chemosphere, 2015-11)

In the United States, aquatic mercury contamination originates from point and non-point sources to watersheds. Here, we studied the contribution of mercury in urban runoff derived from historically contaminated soils and ...
Sources and Biogeochemical Transformation of Mercury in Aquatic Ecosystems

Deonarine, Amrika (2011)

Mercury contamination in aquatic ecosystems is a concern as anaerobic aquatic sediments are the primary regions of methylmercury production in freshwater and coastal regions. Methlymercury is a bioaccumulative neurotoxin, ...