Monitoring mercury in the loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 437-446

  Day, Rusty D ^a,b   Christopher, Steven J ^a   Becker, Paul R ^a   Whitaker, David W ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b School of Business   (United States)

^c SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MERCURY (METAL); SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

INDEX OF RECENT EXPOSURE (IRE); LONG-TERM EXPOSURE; PREDICTIVE TOOLS; TEMPORAL SCALES;

OCEAN HABITATS;

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); TURTLE;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARETTA CARETTA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORAGING; KIDNEY; LIVER; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; SEA TURTLE; SPINAL CORD; TURTLE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BODY BURDEN; MERCURY; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TURTLES; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ANIMALIA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 12344325596     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es049628q     Document Type: Article

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