Growth of estuarine fish is associated with the combined concentration of sediment contaminants and shows no adaptation or acclimation to past conditions

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 423-442

  Forrester, Graham E ^a   Fredericks, Brett I ^b   Gerdeman, Dean ^b   Evans, Bryn ^b   Steele, Mark A ^a   Zayed, Kareem ^c   Schweitzer, Linda E ^c   Suffet, Irwin H ^b,c   Vance, Richard R ^b   Ambrose, Richard F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Contaminant mixture; ERL quotient; Estuaries; Gillichthys mirabilis; Growth; Sediments

Indexed keywords

FISHERIES; SEDIMENTS; TOXICITY;

ESTUARINE FISH;

ESTUARIES;

ARSENIC; BENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM; CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; CHROMIUM; COPPER; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; LEAD; METAL; NICKEL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHTHALIC ACID; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; ZINC;

ACCLIMATION; ADAPTATION; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; FISH; GROWTH RATE; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ESTUARY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FISH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH RATE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; TISSUE GROWTH; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

GILLICHTHYS MIRABILIS; MIRABILIS;

EID: 0037623395     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-1136(03)00004-7     Document Type: Article

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