How can we use the red fox as a bioindicator of organochlorines?

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 547-556

  Corsolini, S ^a   Burrini, L ^a   Focardi, S ^a   Lovari, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; CANID; ORGANOCHLORINE; POLLUTION MONITORING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOX; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; DDT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FOXES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INDUSTRY; INSECTICIDES; ITALY; MUSCLES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ITALY;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0033711035     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002440010139     Document Type: Article

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