Organochlorine contaminants in herring gull eggs from the Great Lakes, 1974-1995: Change point regression analysis and short-term regression

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-115

  Pekarik, C ^a   Weseloh, D V ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERIES; IMPURITIES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CHANGE POINT ANALYSIS; DIELDRIN; HEPTACHLOR EPOXIDE; MIREX; PENTACHLOROBENZENE; TOXICOLOGY;

LAKE POLLUTION;

DIELDRIN; HEPTACHLOR EPOXIDE; MIREX; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PENTACHLOROBENZENE; PHOTOMIREX; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

EGGSHELL; ORGANOCHLORINE; POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEABIRD; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIRD; CANADA; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EGG; NONHUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME; WATER POLLUTION;

GREAT LAKES; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CLUPEA HARENGUS; LARUS ARGENTATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032189638     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006035706753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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