Organochlorine contamination in some odontoceti species from the North Pacific and Indian Ocean

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 415-427

  Prudente, Maricar ^a   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^b   Watanbe, Mafumi ^b   Subramnian, Annamalai ^c   Miyazki, Nobuyuki ^d   Suarez, Pauline ^e   Tatsukawa, Ryo ^f  

^a DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^f KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATIONS; CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATION; DOLPHIN; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; ORGANOCHLORINE; WHALE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; DOLPHIN; ECOTOXICOLOGY; INDIAN OCEAN; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA POLLUTION; SEAL; SPECIES; TROPICS; WHALE;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC, (NORTH);

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; CUCUMIS; ODONTOCETI; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 0030832175     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-1136(97)00016-0     Document Type: Article

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