Monitoring the elimination of persistent toxic substances from the Great Lakes. Chemical and physiological evidence from adult herring gulls

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 147-168

  Fox, G A ^a   Trudeau, S ^a   Won, H ^a   Grasman, K A ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PORPHYRINS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

DIELDRIN; MIREX;

LAKE POLLUTION;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; DIELDRIN; MIREX; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; PORPHYRIN; RETINOL PALMITATE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; THYROID GLAND; TIME; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

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

EID: 0032190438     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005987821104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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