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INCREASING attention has been given recently to mercury pollution, especially in rivers and lakes, and to the movement of the element in aquatic food chains (reviewed in ref. 1). Most information has been obtained for situations where the environmental concentrations have been increased through local use of fungicides containing mercury, the presence of such compounds in wastes from the wood pulp and paper industries or the discharge of other industrial wastes.
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BURTON, J., LEATHERLAND, T. Mercury in a Coastal Marine Environment. Nature 231, 440–442 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/231440a0
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