Comparison of toxaphene congeners levels in five seal species from eastern Canada: What is the importance of biological factors?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1448-1454

  Gouteux, Bruno ^a,c   Lebeuf, Michel ^b   Hammill, Mike O ^b   Muir, Derek C G ^c   Gagné, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIPIDS; MARINE BIOLOGY; METABOLISM; NUTRITION;

CHLOROBORNANES (CHB); LAWRENCE MARINE ECOSYSTEM (SLME); TOXAPHENE CONTAMINATION;

BORON COMPOUNDS;

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; BORNANE DERIVATIVE; CAMPHECLOR; CHLOROBORNANE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DIET; MARINE MAMMAL; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ACCOUNTING; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA; DIETARY INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPID ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PHOCA VITULINA; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; SEAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSECTICIDES; SEALS, EARLESS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXAPHENE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SAINT LAWRENCE ESTUARY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA; GRYPUS; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; PHOCA GROENLANDICA; PHOCA HISPIDA; PHOCA VITULINA; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 15244361055     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048886k     Document Type: Article

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