Aquatic ecotoxicology: From the ecosystem to the cellular and molecular levels

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages 21-35

  Boudou, Alain ^a   Ribeyre, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Aquatic environment; Bioaccumulation; Bioamplification; Ecotoxicology; Methodologies

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

BIOASSAY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0030932607     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s121     Document Type: Review

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