Geographic trend in mercury measured in common loon feathers and blood

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-183

  Evers, David C ^a,b   Kaplan, Joseph D ^b   Meyer, Michael W ^c   Reaman, Peter S ^b   Braselton, W Emmett ^d   Major, Andrew ^e   Burgess, Neil ^f   Scheuhammer, Anton M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b BioDiversity Inc   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avian exposure; Bioaccumulation; Biomagnification; Loon; Mercury

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; BLOOD LEVEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031929735     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1998)017<0173:GTIMMI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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