Articles on Mercury in the Amazon

  

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  2003
   
  Brabo ES, Angelica RS, Silva AP, Faial KRF, Mascarenhas AFS, Santos ECO, Jesus IM, Loureiro ECB. (2003)
Assessement of mercury levels in soils, waters, bottom sediments and fishes of Acre state in Brazilian Amazon.
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 147: 61–77.
   
  Dorea JG (2003)
Fish are central in the diet of Amazonian riparians: should we worry about their mercury concentrations?
Environmental Research, 92: 232–244.
   
  Dorea JG, Barbosa AC, Souzade J, Fadini P, Jardim WF (2003)
Piranhas (Serrasalmus spp.) as markers of mercury bioaccumulation in Amazonian ecosystems.
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
   
  Passos, C.J., Mergler, D., Gaspar, E., Morais, S., Lucotte, M., Larribe, F., Davidson , D. and de Grosbois, S. (2003)
Eating tropical fruit reduces mercury exposure from fish consumption in the Brazilian Amazon.
Environmental Research, 93: 123-130.
   
   
  2002
   
  Castilhos ZC, Lima C. (2002)
Field Dose-Response Approach as a Tool for Environmental Mercury Contamination Assessment in Fish.
Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 68:412– 419.
   
  Cordeiro RC, Turcq B, Ribeiro MG, Lacerda LD, Capitaneo J, da Silva AO, Sifeddine A,Turcq PM. (2002)
Forest fire indicators and mercury deposition in an intense land use change region in the Brazilian Amazon (Alta Floresta, MT).
The Science of the Total Environment 293: 247–256.
   
  Cordier S, Garel M, Mandereau L, Morcel H, Doineau P, Gosme-Seguret S, Josse D, White R, and Amiel-Tison C. (2002)
Neurodevelopmental Investigations among Methylmercury-Exposed Children in French Guiana.
Environmental Research Section A 89, 1-11.
   
  de Campos MS, Sarkis JES, Muller RCS, Brabo ES, Santos ECO. (2002)
Correlation between mercury and selenium concentrations in Indian hair from Rondônia State, Amazon region, Brazil.
The Science of the Total Environment. 287: 155-161.
   
  Elisabeth C. de Oliveira Santos, Iracina Maura de Jesus, Volney de M. Câmara, Edilson Brabo, Edvaldo C. Brito Loureiro, Artur Mascarenhas, Judith Weirich, Ronir Ragio Luiz, David Cleary. (2002)
Mercury Exposure in Munduruku Indians from the Community of Sai Cinza, State of Pará, Brazil.
Environmental Research, 90 : 98 - 103
   
  E. C. O. Santos, V. M. Câmara, I. M. Jesus, E. S. Brabo, E. C. B. Loureiro, A. F. S. Mascarenhas, K. F. Fayal, G. C. Sá Filho, F. E. S. Sagica, M. O. Lima, H. Higuchi and I. M. Silveira (2002)
A Contribution to the Establishment of Reference Values for Total Mercury Levels in Hair and Fish in Amazonia.
Environmental Research, 90: 6-11.
   
   
  2001
   
  P.S. Fadini and W.F. Jardim (2001)
Is the Negro River Basin Amazon impacted by naturally occurring mercury?
The Science of the Total Environment 275: 71 – 82.
   
 
Barbosa AC., W. Jardim, J. G. Dorea, B. Fosberg, J. Souza. (2001)
Hair Mercury Speciation as a Function of Gender, Age, and Body Mass Index in Inhabitants of the Negro River Basin, Amazon, Brazil.
Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 40: 439-444
   
  Castilhos ZC, Bidone ED, Hartz SM. (2001)
Bioaccumulation of Mercury by Tucunare´ (Cichla ocellaris) from Tapajós River Region, Brazilian Amazon: A Field Dose-Response Approach.
Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 66:631– 637.
   
  Dolbec J, Mergler D, Larribe B, Roulet M, Lebel J, Lucotte M. (2001)
Sequential analysis of hair mercury levels in relation to fish diet of an Amazonian population, Brazil.
The Science of the Total Environment, 271: 87-97.
   
  Jan H. Mol, Joyce S. Ramlal, Carlos Lietar, Marc Verloo (2001)
Mercury Contamination in Freshwater, Estuarine, and Marine Fishes in Relation to Small-Scale Gold Mining in Suriname, South America
Environmental Research, 86: 183-197
   
  Machado I F and de M. Figueiroa S F (2001)
500 years of mining in Brazil: a brief review.
Resources Policy 27: 9–24.
   
  Roulet M, Lucotte M, Canuel R, Farella N, De Freitos Goch YG, Pacheco Peleja RJ, Guimarães JRD, Mergler D, Amorim M. (2001)
Spatio-temporal geochemistry of Hg in waters of the Tapajós and Amazon rivers, Brazil.
Limnology and Oceanography, 46 (5): 1141–1157.
   
  Roulet M, Lucotte M and Guimarães JRD, (2001)
Methylmercury production and accumulation in sediments and soils of an Amazonian floodplain - effect of seasonal inundation.
Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 128: 41-61.
   
  Débora Cynamon Kligerman, Emilio Lebre La Rovere and Maria Albertina Costa, (2001)
Management Challenges on Small-Scale Gold Mining Activities in Brazil
Environmental Research, 87: 181 - 198
   
  Masazumi Harada, Junko Nakanishi, Eiichi Yasoda, Maria da Conceiçáo N. Pinheiro, Teiichi Oikawa, Geraldo de Assis Guimarães, Bernardo da silva Cardoso, Takako Kizaki, Hideki Ohno, (2001)
Mercury pollution in the Tapajos River basin, Amazon Mercury level of head hair and health effects.
Environment International, 27: 285–290.
   
   
  2000
   
  Akagi H and Naganumab A (2000)
Human Exposure to Mercury and the Accumulation of Methylmercury that is Associated with Gold Mining in the Amazon Basin, Brazil.
Journal of Health Science, 46: 323–328.
   
Amorim MI, Mergler D, Bahia MO, Dubeau H, Miranda D, Lebel J, Burbano RR, Lucotte M. (2000)
Cytogenetic damage related to low levels of methyl mercury contamination in the Brazilian Amazon.
An Acad Bras Cienc. 72:497-507.
   
  Artaxo P, de Campos RC, Fernandes ET, Martins JV, Xiao Z, Lindqvist O, Fernández-Jiménez MT and Maenhaut W. (2000)
Large scale mercury and trace element measurements in the Amazon basin.
Atmospheric Environment, Volume 34: 4085-4096
 

  Brabo ES, Santos ECO, de Jesus IM, Mascarenhas AFS, Faial KF. (2000)
Mercury Contamination of Fish and Exposures of an Indigenous Community in ParaH State, Brazil.
Environmental Research, 84, 197-203.
   
 
Boischio AA, Henshel D. (2000)
Fish consumption, fish lore, and mercury pollution--risk communication for the Madeira River people.
Environ Research, 84:108-26.
 

  Boischio AA, Cernichiari E, Henshel D. (2000)
Segmental hair mercury evaluation of a single family along the upper Madeira basin, Brazilian Amazon.
Cad Saude Publica. Jul-Sep;16(3):681-6.
   
  Boischio AA, Henshel DS. (2000)
Linear regression models of methyl mercury exposure during prenatal and early postnatal life among riverside people along the upper Madeira river, Amazon.
Environ Res. Jun;83(2):150-61.
   
  Boischio AA. (2000)
Evaluating mercury exposure through fish consumption in the Amazon--the roles of biomarkers and predictive models.
Environ Res. Jan;82(1):91-2; discussion 93.
   
  Dolbec J, Mergler D, Sousa Passos CJ, Sousa de Morais S, Lebel J. (2000)
Methylmercury exposure affects motor performance of a riverine population of the Tapajos river, Brazilian Amazon.
Int Arch Occup Environ Health.73:195-203.
   
  dos Santos LSN, Muller RCS, Sarkis JES, Alves CN, Brabo ES, Santos ECO, Bentes MHS. (2000)
Evaluation of total mercury concentrations in fish consumed in the municipality of Itaituba, Tapajos River Basin, Para, Brazil.
The Science of the Total Environment, 261: 1-8.
   
  Guimarães, J.R.D; Meili, M; Hylander, L.D; Castro e Silva, E; Roulet, M; Mauro, J.B.N &. Lemos, R.A. (2000)
Net mercury methylation in five tropical flood plain regions of Brazil: high in the root zone of floating macrophyte mats but low in surface sediments and flooded soils.
The Science of the Total Environment, 261: 99-107.
   
  Guimarães, J.R.D., Roulet, M., Lucotte, M. and Mergler, D. (2000)
Mercury methylation potentials along a lake-forest transect in the Tapajós river floodplain, Brazilian Amazon: seasonal and vertical variations.
The Science of the Total Environment, 261: 91-98.
   
  Hacon S, Yokoo E, Valente J, Campos RC, da Silva VA, de Menezes AC, de Moraes LP, Ignotti E. (2000)
Exposure to mercury in pregnant women from Alta Floresta-Amazon basin, Brazil.
Environ Res. 84:204-10.
   
  Maria da Conceição Nascimento Pinheiro , Junko Nakanishi, Teichii Oikawa, Geraldo Guimarães, Manoel Quaresma, Bernardo Cardoso, Walter W. Amoras, Masazume Harada, Carlos Magno, José Luis F. Vieira, Marilia Brasil Xavier e Denise R. Bacelar (2000)
Exposição humana ao metilmercúrio em comunidades ribeirinhas da Região do Tapajós, Pará, Brasil.
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop., 33 no.3.
   
  Maria da Conceição Nascimento Pinheiro, Geraldo de Assis Guimarães, Junko Nakanishi, Teiichi Oikawa, José Luiz Vieira, Manoel Quaresma, Bernardo Cardoso e Walter Amoras. (2000)
Avaliação da contaminação mercurial mediante análise do teor de Hg total em amostras de cabelo em comunidades ribeirinhas do Tapajós, Pará, Brasil.
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop., 33 no.2.
   
  Ana Paula de Souza Lima, Regina Celi Sarkis Müller, Jorge Eduardo de Souza Sarkis, Cláudio Nahum Alves, Maria Helena da Silva Bentes, Edilson Brabo, Elisabeth de Oliveira Santos. (2000)
Mercury Contamination in Fish from Santarém, Pará, Brazil.
Environmental Research, 83: 117-122
   
  Roulet M, Lucotte M, Canuel R, Farella N, Courcelles M, Guimarães JRD, Mergler D, Amorim M. (2000)
Increase in mercury contamination recorded in lacustrine sediments following deforestation in Central Amazonia.
Chemical Geology, 165: 243-266.
   
  Roulet M, Lucotte M, Guimarães JRD and Rhéault I. (2000)
Methylmercury in the water, seston and epiphyton of an Amazonian River and its floodplain, Tapajós River, Brazil.
The Science of the Total Environment, 261: 43-59.
   
  Rosa M.S. Santa Rosa, Regina C.S. Muller,U, Claudio N. Alves, Jorge E. de S. Sarkis, Maria H. da S. Bentes, Edilson Brabo, Elisabeth S. de Oliveira (2000)
Determination of total mercury in workers’ urine in gold shops of Itaituba, Para State, Brazil.
The Science of the Total Environment, 261: 169-176.
   
  Santos EC, Jesus IM, Brabo ES, Loureiro EC, Mascarenhas AF, Weirich J, Camara VM, Cleary D. (2000)
Mercury exposures in riverside Amazon communities in Para, Brazil.
Environmental Research. 84: 100-7.
   
   
  1999
   
  Brabo ES, Santos ECO, de Jesus IM, Mascarenhas AF, Faial KF. (1999).
Níveis de mercúrio em peixes consumidos pela comunidade indígena de Sai Cinza na Reserva Munduruku, Município de Jacareacanga, Estado do Pará, Brasil. (Mercury levels in fish consumed by the Sai Cinza indigenous community, Munduruku Reservation, Jacareacanga County, State of Pará, Brazil)
Cad. Saúde Pública, 15 no.2.
   
  Roulet M, Lucotte M, Farella N, Serique G, Coelho H, Passos CJS, de Jesus da Silva E, de Andrade PS, Mergler D, Guimaraes JR, Amorim M. (1999)
Effects of recent human colonization on the presence of mercury in Amazonian ecosystems.
Water, Air and Soil Pollution 112: 297-313.
   
   
  1998
   
 
Barbosa AC, Silva SR, Dorea JG. (1998)
Concentration of mercury in hair of indigenous mothers and infants from the Amazon basin.
Arch Environ Contam Toxicol. Jan;34(1):100-5.
   
  Boischio AA, Cernichiari E. (1998)
Longitudinal hair mercury concentration in riverside mothers along the Upper Madeira river (Brazil).
Environ Res. May;77(2):79-83.
   
  Castilhos ZC, Bidone ED, Lacerda LD. (1998)
Increase of the background human exposure to mercury through fish consumption due to gold mining at the Tapajos River region, Para State.
Amazon. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol. 61:202-9.
   
  Kehrig HA, Malm O, Akagi H, Guimaraes JR, Torres JP. (1998)
Methylmercury in fish and hair samples from the Balbina Feservoir, Brazilian Amazon.
Environ Res. 77: 84-90.
   
  Lebel J, Mergler D, Branches F, Lucotte M, Amorim M, Larribe F, Dolbec J. (1998)
Neurotoxic effects of low-level methylmercury contamination in the Amazonian Basin.
Environ Res. 79: 20-32.
   
  Olaf Malm. (1998)
Gold mining as a source of mercury exposure in the Brazilian Amazon.
Environ Res. 77: 73-8.
   
  Roulet M, Lucotte M, Saint-Aubin A, Tran S, Rhéault I, Farella N, De Jesus Da Silva E, Dezencourt J, Sousa Passos C-J, Santos Soares G, Guimarães JRD, Mergler D and Amorim M. (1998)
The geochemistry of Hg in Central Amazonian soils developed on the Alter-do-Chão formation of the lower Tapajós river valley, Pará state, Brazil.
The Science of the Total Environment, 223: 1-24.
   
  Roulet M, Lucotte M, Canuel R, Rheault I, Tran S, Gog Y GD, Valer SD, Passos C JS, Silva E D JD, Mergler D, Amorim M. 1998.
Distribution and partition of total mercury in waters of the Tapajos River Basin, Brazilian Amazon.
Science of the Total Environment; 213: 203-211.
   
   
  1997
   
  Barbosa AC, Garcia AM, de Souza JR. (1997)
Mercury contamination in hair of riverine population of Apiacas reserve in the Brazilian Amazon.
The Science of the Total Environment, 97: 1-8.
   
  Bidone ED, Castilhos ZC, de Souza MC, Lacerda LD. (1997)
Fish Contamination and Human Exposure to Mercury in the Tapajós River Basin, Pará State, Amazon, Brazil: A Screening Approach.
Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 59: 194-201
 

  Lebel, J., M. Roulet, D. Mergler, M. Lucotte et F. Larribe. (1997)
Fish diet and mercury exposure in a riparian Amazonian population.
Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 97: 31-44.
   
   
  1995
   
  Akagi, H., Malm, O., Kinjo, Y., Harada, M., Branches, F. P. J., Pfeiffer, W. C., & Kato, H. (1995).
Methylmercury pollution in Amazon, Brazil.
The Science of the Total Environment, 175: 85-95.
   
  Leino T and Lodenius M (1995)
Human hair mercury levels in Tucurui area, State of Para, Brazil.
The Science of the Total Environment, 175: 119-125.
   
  Malm, O., Branches, F. J., Akagi, H., Castro, M. B., Pfeiffer, W. C., Harada, M., Bastos, W. R., & Kato, H. (1995).
Mercury and methylmercury in fish and human hair from the Tapajós river basin, Brazil.
The Science of the Total Environment. 175: 141-150.
   
  Malm, O., Castro, M. B., Bastos, W. R., Branches, F. J., Guimarães, J.R.D., Zuffo C. E. & Pfeiffer, W. C.(1995).
An assessment of Hg pollution in different goldmining areas, Amazon Brazil.
The Science of the Total Environment. 175: 127-140.