Health status and relative exposure of mule deer and white-tailed deer to soil contaminants at the rocky mountain arsenal

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 272-278

  Creekmore, Terry E ^a   Whittaker, Donald G ^b   Roy, Richard R ^c,d   Franson, J Christian ^a   Baker, Dan L ^e  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^c US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^d Moses Lake Field Office   (United States)

^e Colorado Division of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dieldrin; Environmental contaminants; Mercury; Mule deer; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CHLORDANE; DIELDRIN; ENDRIN; MERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHLORINATION; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; DEER; FETUS; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; TELEMETRY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032936628     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<0272:HSAREO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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