Mercury exposure in piscivorous birds at the Carson River (NV) superfund site, 1997-2006: egg data

Description

The persistence and degree of mercury contamination of the lower Carson River system (LCRS) have led to placement of a portion of the Carson River Basin (including Lahontan Reservoir) on the US. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Priorities List ("Superfund") for research and cleanup. The potential toxicity of mercury concentrations within the LCRS to piscivorous birds (snowy egrets, black-crowned night-herons, and double-crested cormorants) was examined from 1997-2006.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7T43R5X
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.56f9a8dae4b0a6037df06bf4.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7T43R5X

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  • environment
  • carson-lake-gnis-id-839327-lake
  • droughts
  • biomarkers
  • usgs-56f9a8dae4b0a6037df06bf4
  • biota
  • lahontan-reservoir-gnis-id-858052-reservoir
  • reproduction
  • mining
  • birds
  • carson-sink-gnis-id-856208-basin
  • natural-resource-extraction
  • mercury-contamination
  • united-states
  • total-mercury
  • ecotoxicology
  • piscivory
  • water-quality
  • river-systems
  • mining-and-quarrying
  • inlandwaters
  • water-discharge
  • methyl-mercury
  • contamination-and-pollution
  • aquatic-ecosystems
  • carson-river-gnis-id-859159-stream
  • surface-water-non-marine
  • nevada
  • histopathology
  • contaminants

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