Blood concentration of organochlorine pollutants and wing feather asymmetry in Glaucous Gulls

Functional Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 617-622

  Bustnes, J O ^a   Folstad, I ^b   Erikstad, K E ^a   Fjeld, M ^a   Miland, O O ^a   Skaare, J U ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Fluctuating asymmetry; HCB; Individual asymmetry; PCB

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FEATHER; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB;

ARCTIC;

AVES; LARUS; LARUS HYPERBOREUS;

EID: 0036790279     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2002.00656.x     Document Type: Article

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