Radium-226 equilibrium between water and lake herring, Coregonus artedii, tissues attained within fish lifetime: Confirmation in this species of one assumption in the simple linear concentration factor model

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-78

  Clulow, F V ^a   Pyle, G G ^a,b  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKE WATER; RADIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; MODEL; NONHUMAN; WATER POLLUTION;

COREGONUS ARTEDII;

CONCENTRATION FACTOR MODEL; CONTAMINANT FLOW; LAKE HERRING; RADIUM-226; WATER;

EID: 0030619844     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(97)00006-7     Document Type: Article

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