Dartmouth Merrcury Food Web Study (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth Merrcury Food Web Study (1 of 2)

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Ramsa Chaves-Ulloa, who received her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College, collects spiders as part of a study that found more mercury than previously thought is moving from aquatic to land food webs when stream insects are consumed by spiders.

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Jon G. Fox

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