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  5. Mercury Concentrations and Stable Isotope Ratios for California Black Rails and their Invertebrate Prey from Wetlands of the San Francisco Bay, CA

Mercury Concentrations and Stable Isotope Ratios for California Black Rails and their Invertebrate Prey from Wetlands of the San Francisco Bay, CA

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Start Date
2005
End Date
2007

Citation

Hall, L.A., Woo, I., Marvin-DiPasquale, M.C., Tsao, D.C., Krabbenhoft, D.P., Takekawa, J.Y., and De La Cruz, S.E.W., 2020, Sediment biogeochemistry and subsequent mercury biomagnification in wetland food webs of the San Francisco Bay, CA (ver. 2.0, December 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9AMA3PL.

Summary

Methylmercury concentrations and stable isotope ratios were measured from back feathers of California black rails (Laterallus jamaicensis coturniculus) and six taxa of their invertebrate prey (Amphipoda, Arachnida, Coleoptera, Diptera, Gastropoda, and Hemiptera). Samples were collected from three wetlands in the spring and summer of 2005 and 2006.

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Point of Contact :
Laurie A Hall
Originator :
Laurie A Hall, Isa Woo, Mark C Marvin-DiPasquale, Danika C Tsao, David P Krabbenhoft, John Y Takekawa, Susan E De La Cruz
Metadata Contact :
Laurie A Hall
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Western Ecological Research Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Mercury_and_isotope_data_from_BLRA_and_prey.csv 37.18 KB text/csv
MercuryConcentrations_StableIsotopeRatios_BLRA_prey_SF_Bay.xml
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Purpose

Data were collected to better understand spatial the effects of habitat biogeochemistry, food web structure, and diet composition on MeHg bioaccumulation in the wetland-obligate California black rail (Laterallus jamaicensis coturniculus).

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