Temporal Variation in Fish Mercury Concentrations within Lakes from the Western Aleutian Archipelago

• Main Authors: Leah A. Kenney, Collin A. Eagles-smith, Joshua T. Ackerman
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Agattu Island; Agattu; Archipelago; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.669.5912; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100886/pdf/pone.0102244.pdf

We assessed temporal variation in mercury (Hg) concentrations of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from Agattu Island, Aleutian Archipelago, Alaska. Total Hg concentrations in whole-bodied stickleback were measured at two-week intervals from two sites in each of two lakes from June 1 t...