The contamination of birds with organic pollutants in the Lake Baikal region

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 212, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 153-162

  Lebedev, A T ^a   Poliakova, O V ^a   Karakhanova, N K ^a   Petrosyan, V S ^a   Renzoni, A ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Birds; Contamination; Hydrocarbons; Lake Baikal

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; LAKE WATER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

BIRD; EGG; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUND; PAH; PHENOL;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; CONTAMINATION; EFFLUENT TOXICITY; EGG; ESTUARY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; OVUM; PHENOLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RUSSIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SIBERIA, SELENGA ESTUARY;

ANAS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANIMALIA; ARIAS; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; PODICEPS AURITUS; TRINGA STAGNATILIS;

EID: 0032495846     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(97)00338-0     Document Type: Article

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