Designing monitoring programmes for detecting temporal trends in contaminants in fish and shellfish

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 821-826

  Nicholson, M D ^a   Fryer, R J ^b   Ross, C A ^b  

^a DEFRA   (United Kingdom)

^b MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Design; Monitoring; Power; Trends; Variance components

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; SEA POLLUTION; SHELLFISH; VARIANCE;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031453095     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-326X(96)00055-0     Document Type: Article

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