Heavy-metal concentration in the frog Rana ridibunda from a small river of Macedonia, Northern Greece

Environment International

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 427-431

  Loumbourdis, N S ^a   Wray, David ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Geochemistry Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FERTILIZERS; HEAVY METALS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PESTICIDES; RIVERS; TISSUE; TRACE ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION;

WATER POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; MANGANESE; MOLYBDENUM; ZINC;

FROG; HEAVY METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FROG; GREECE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

GREECE; MACEDONIA;

RANA RIDIBUNDA;

EID: 0032080648     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-4120(98)00021-X     Document Type: Article

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