Subject Index
A
Abieti-Fagetum 294
aboveground biomass 328
absorption capacities 427
accumulation 290
acetaldehyde 143,145
acid purification method 137
activated carbon 100, 106, 135, 394
activity coefficient 444
adsorption capacity 189
- filtration 133
- method 394, 400
after-burner 116
age-related accumulation pattern 310
Agrostis stolonifera 323
air emission 100
- monitoring 458
Alert 40
alkali production 17
Almaden Mercury Mine (Spain) 19,33,51,53,
260
Altmark 239,243
amalgamation 12,17,337,358,359,441
- milling 354
Amazon 7,83
- region 17
ambient air concentration 94
ameliorative strategy 154
amine groups 167
- acid 166
amorphous iron hydroxide 430
analytical method 340
- mercury in benthos 474
- mercury in sediment 474
- procedure 183
- quality control 293
animal samples 290
- tissue 281
annual growth rings 94
Antarctica 39
anthropogenic emission sources 10
- mercury 478
- - loading 484
emissions 16
aqua regia 190
aquatic macrophytes 81
aqueous phase 501
archaebacteria 171
artificially contaminated soil 424,429,
435
Asia 487
asphalt concrete 462
atmospheric deposition 208
- mercury 54,59,66,254,255
availability 218
B
Bacillus subilis 170
background air 20
- concentration 103
- forest soils 35
bacteria 161,166
Bellingham Bay 103
benthos 473
Berry Creek 103
Betula pendula 327
bioaccumulation 101, 268
bioavailability 96,100,101,104,189
- ofHg 182
- test 204
biochemical effect 173,174
biological contamination, Minamata Bay 150
biological monitors 84
biomethylation 147
biomolecules 160
biomonitor 281
biomonitoring 265
bioremediation 126
blood 278
- mercury 271,274
Boliden AB 134
Boliden-Norzink process 137
Bombay 521
- Harbour Bay 522
bottom sediment 214,501
Brazil 12, 16