Organochlorine and polychlorinated biphenyl contamination in black neck stilt, Himantopus mexicanus, eggs from the Savannah and Tybee National Wildlife Refuges

Chemosphere

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 151-163

  Harper, Frances D ^a   Waldrop, Virginia C ^a   Jeffers, Russell D ^b   Duncan, Catherine D ^b   Cobb, George P ^c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

ARTICLE; CHORIOALLANTOIS; CONTAMINATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EGG; UNITED STATES;

AVES; HIMANTOPUS MEXICANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033168210     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(98)00593-1     Document Type: Article

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