Concentrations of cadmium, mercury and selenium in blood, liver and kidney of common eider ducks from the Canadian arctic

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 255-267

  Wayland, M ^a   Garcia Fernandez, A J ^b   Neugebauer, E ^a   Gilchrist, H G ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arctic; Blood; Cadmium; Common eider; Kidney; Liver; Mercury; Metals; Sea ducks; Selenium

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD; CADMIUM; MERCURY (METAL); SELENIUM;

BLOOD SAMPLES;

BIODIVERSITY;

CADMIUM; MERCURY; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CADMIUM; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SEABIRD; SELENIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCK; FEMALE; KIDNEY; LIVER LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PUBLISHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA BOREALIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE TYPES;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CADMIUM; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DUCKS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MERCURY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELENIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS;

CANADA;

EID: 0034784590     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011850000360     Document Type: Article

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