Concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, selenium, and zinc in fish from the Mississippi River basin, 1995

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 90, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 289-321

  Schmitt, Christopher J ^a  

^a Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Arkansas River; Arsenic; Cadmium; Copper; Irrigation; Lead; Metals; Mississippi River; Missouri River; Monitoring; Ohio River; Red River; Selenium; Tennessee River; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CATCHMENTS; COPPER; DAMS; WATER QUALITY; WEATHERING;

FISH;

FISHERIES;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; SELENIUM; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FISH; HEAVY METAL; RIVER BASIN;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BASS; CARP; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PERCIFORMES; REVIEW; RIVER; RIVER BASIN; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED; WEATHERING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; LEAD; METALS, HEAVY; MISSISSIPPI; RIVERS; SELENIUM; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

MISSISSIPPI BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINUS CARPIO; MICROPTERUS; PERCIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0742271775     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EMAS.0000003594.64248.0a     Document Type: Review

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