Mercury concentrations in king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) feathers at crozet islands (sub-antarctic): Temporal trend between 1966-1974 and 2000-2001

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 125-128

  Scheifler, Renaud ^a   Gauthier Clerc, Michel ^b,c   Le Bohec, Céline ^b   Crini, Nadia ^a   Cœurdassier, Michaël ^a   Badot, Pierre Marie ^a   Giraudoux, Patrick ^a   Le Maho, Yvon ^b  

^a University of Franche Comté   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Bird; Feathers; Mercury concentrations; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CONTAMINATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MERCURY (METAL); OCEAN CURRENTS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ANTARCTIC ISLANDS; KING PENGUIN; MARINE FOOD CHAINS; MERCURY CONCENTRATION; SECONDARY POISONING;

BIODIVERSITY;

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; FEATHER; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SEABIRD;

AIR POLLUTION; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COMPARATIVE TOXICOLOGY; DRY MASS; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FEATHER; LETHAL DOSE; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON;

CROZET ISLANDS; FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; APTENODYTES; APTENODYTES PATAGONICUS; AVES; SPHENISCIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10644257570     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-446.1     Document Type: Article

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