Bone Mineral Density in Male Baltic Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)

Ambio

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 385-388

  Lind, P Monica ^a,b   Bergman, Anders ^c,d   Olsson, Mats ^c   Örberg, Jan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BONE; MARINE MAMMAL; ORGANOCHLORINE;

BALTIC SEA;

ANIMALIA; GRYPUS; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; MAMMALIA; PHOCIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0142123101     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.6.385     Document Type: Article

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29. th Anniversary foundation of King Carl XVI Gustaf, the National Monitoring Programme under the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, the World Wildlife Fund, the Oscar and Lily Lamm Foundation and the Olle and Signhild Engkvist Foundations. Their support is gratefully acknowledged. The section of Vertebrate Zoology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History kindly provided the grey seal bone specimens.
30. First submitted 29 Nov. 2002. Revised manuscript received 5 Feb. 2003. Accepted for publication 14 Feb. 2003.