Metals in herring and great black-backed gulls from the New York bight: The role of salt gland in excretion

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 569-581

  Burger, Joanna ^a,b   Trivedi, Chirag D ^a,b   Gochfeld, Michael ^b,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gulls; Herring; Metals

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; ECOLOGY; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY (METAL); MUSCLE; SELENIUM; TIN;

EXCRETORY FUNCTION; LARUS ARGENTATUS; LARUS MARINUS; SALT GLAND;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY; SELENIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXOCRINE GLAND; NONHUMAN; SALT GLAND; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034306993     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006377623128     Document Type: Article

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