PCDDs/PCDFs, coplanar PCBs and PCBs in barn owl eggs from different areas in the State of Brandenburg, Germany

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-24

  Wiesmuller T ^a   Schlatterer, B ^a   Wuntke, B ^b   Schneider, R ^b  

^a Stt Lab of Vet Diagn/Food I   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUND;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; BREEDING; CHLORINATION; CONTAMINATION; GERMANY; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; EGGS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FATS; GERMANY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; STRIGIFORMES; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

AVES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA;

EID: 0032982820     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289900942     Document Type: Article

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