Lack of bioaccumulation of heavy metals in an arthropod community in the northern Chihuahuan Desert

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 329-334

  Mackay, William P ^a   Mena, Richard ^a   Gardea, John ^a   Pingatore, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; LEAD; POLLUTION GRADIENT;

USA, TEXAS, CHIHUAHUAN DESERT;

EID: 0031390101     PISSN: 00228567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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