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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2004, Volume40

125 pages

Issue price - $369.00

Role of the Trophic Structure of Aquatic Ecosystems of the North-West of Russia in Mercury Accumulation in Fish

I. K. Stepanova
Institute of Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Yaroslavl' Region, Russia

V. T. Komov
Institute of Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Yaroslavl' Region, Russia

ABSTRACT

It was established that development of the heterotrophic part of planktonic assemblages and a decrease in a relative part of biomass of primary producers and macrozoobenthos lead to increased accumulation of mercury in fish as the final link in the trophic chain.