Chapter 2 - OCCURRENCE OF MERCURY IN ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA
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چکیده
The issue of mercury in the environment has generated several important reports that reflect the evolution of our understanding of ecotoxicology and environmental science. Beginning in the 1960’s, Swedish scientists played a lead role, partly because the widespread use of mercurial fungicides to protect grain during the long Scandinavian winters had resulted in extensive poisoning of granivorous and raptorial birds. The report by Lofroth (1970) on methylmercury toxicity and the volume The Biogeochemistry of Mercury in the Environment (Nriagu 1979) summarized much of the early research.
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