Kinetics of 45Ca, 60Co, 210Pb, 54Mn and 109Cd in the tissue of the freshwater bivalve Velesunio angasi: Further development of a predictive and mechanistic model of metal bioaccumulation

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 188, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 139-166

  Brown, Paul L ^a   Jeffree, Ross A ^a,b   Markich, Scott J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b Australian High Commission   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Bivalve; Freshater; Kinetics; Metal; Radionuclide

Indexed keywords

METAL; RADIOISOTOPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; KINETICS; MODEL; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA; UNIONIDAE; VELESUNIO ANGASI;

BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM-109; CALCIUM-45; COBALT-60; LEAD-210; MANGANESE-54;

EID: 0030579959     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(96)05166-2     Document Type: Article

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