Insecticide contamination of Jamaican environment. IV. Transport of residues from coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains to coastal waters in eastern Jamaica

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-142

  Robinson, Dwight E ^a   Mansingh, Ajai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Endosulfan; Environmental contamination; Insecticides

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; CROPS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FARMS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENTS; SOIL POLLUTION;

ENDOSULFAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATIONS;

INSECTICIDES;

DIELDRIN; ENDOSULFAN; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PESTICIDE RESIDUE;

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; INSECTICIDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; COFFEE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FAUNA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; JAMAICA; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; RIVER; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

JAMAICA;

APUS APUS;

EID: 0033514090     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005806815959     Document Type: Article

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