Gold concentrations in abiotic materials, plants, and animals: A synoptic review

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 90, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 73-88

  Eisler, Ronald ^a  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Air; Gold; Humans; Invertebrates; Plants; Sediments; Sewage sludge; Snow; Soils; Vertebrates; Water

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DUST; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAIN; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; SMELTING;

ABIOTIC MATERIALS;

GOLD MINES;

ALLERGEN; FRESH WATER; GOLD; RAIN; SEA WATER; SULFIDE; THIOL;

BIOACCUMULATION; GOLF COURSE; INVERTEBRATE; MINE WASTE; SEDIMENT;

ALGA; ATMOSPHERE; BEAN; BIRD; BREAST MILK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL ASSISTANT; DERMATITIS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRY WEIGHT; DUST; FISH; FRESH WEIGHT; GOLD THERAPY; HAIR; HUMAN; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; INVERTEBRATE; KIDNEY MASS; MAMMAL; MINING; MOSS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RIVER; SEA; SEDIMENT; SLUDGE; SOIL; TOOTH FILLING; TRAFFIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GOLD; HAIR; HUMANS; KIDNEY; METALS; MINING; ORGAN SIZE; PLANTS; RUSSIA; SEAWATER; SEWAGE; SOIL; SULFIDES; VERTEBRATES;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0742306524     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EMAS.0000003567.66682.d8     Document Type: Review

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