Research Article
Mercury in Different Tissues of Grey Herons (Ardea cinerea) from the Volta Lake, Ghana
Kwaansa-Ansah EE*, Agyemang D and Opoku F
Department of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
- *Corresponding Author:
- Kwaansa-Ansah EE
Department of Chemistry
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Kumasi, Ghana
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Received date: October 29, 2015; Accepted date: December 02, 2015; Published date: December 07, 2015
Citation: Kwaansa-Ansah EE, Agyemang D, Opoku F (2015) Mercury in Different Tissues of Grey Herons (Ardea cinerea) from the Volta Lake, Ghana. J Marine Sci Res Dev 6:175. doi:10.4172/2155-9910.1000175
Copyright: © 2015 Kwaansa-Ansah EE, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Birds as high consumers and account for accumulative processes in marine pollution accumulate contaminants such as mercury (Hg). Therefore, in this study, the concentration of total mercury (THg) in ten (10) different tissues of Ardea cinerea from the Volta Lake, Ghana was measured. The THg concentrations in Ardea cinerea tissues follow the order: lungs
