Assessment of organotin in waters of selected Gulf of Maine estuaries

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 802-804

  Larsen, Peter Foster ^a   Huggett, Robert J ^b   Unger, Michael A ^b  

^a BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFOULING AGENT; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; TRIBUTYLTIN;

ARTICLE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; GASTROPOD; GROWTH INHIBITION; LEACHING; MORTALITY; MUSSEL; OYSTER; SEA POLLUTION; SHIPPING; SPECIES; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING;

GASTROPODA; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 0344972741     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-326X(97)00030-1     Document Type: Article

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