Long-term effects of crude oil on developing fish: Lessons from the Exxon Valdez oil spill

Energy Sources

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 509-517

  Short, Jeffrey W ^a   Rice, Stanley D ^a   Heintz, Ron A ^a   Carls, Mark G ^a   Moles, Adam ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crude oil; Embryo toxicity; Exxon Valdez; Fish habitat; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242526856     PISSN: 00908312     EISSN: 15210510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00908310303420     Document Type: Article

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