Mercury in Morelet's crocodile eggs from northern Belize

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 319-324

  Rainwater, T R ^a   Adair, B M ^a   Platt, S G ^b   Anderson, T A ^a   Cobb, G P ^a   McMurry, S T ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; CROCODILIAN; EGG; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

ALLIGATOR; ARTICLE; BELIZE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICOKINETICS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BELIZE; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; EGGS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MERCURY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS;

BELIZE;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMALIA; CASIMIROA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS; CROCODYLUS MORELETII; LAGUNA;

EID: 0036234463     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-001-0020-7     Document Type: Article

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