Metals in horseshoe crabs from Delaware bay

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 36-42

  Burger, J ^a,b   Dixon, C ^b,c   Shukla, T ^b,c   Tsipoura, N ^a,d   Jensen, H ^b,c   Fitzgerald, M ^a,b   Ramos, R ^a,b   Gochfeld, M ^b,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Natural Resources Defense Council   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; SELENIUM;

BIOACCUMULATION; CRAB; HEAVY METAL;

ARTICLE; CRAB; ECOSYSTEM; EGG; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY METAL POISONING; LEG; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; DELAWARE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HORSESHOE CRABS; METALS, HEAVY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; LIMULIDAE; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA; POLYPHEMUS;

EID: 12244261614     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-002-2002-9     Document Type: Article

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