Relating land cover characteristics and common loon mercury levels using geographic information systems

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 253-262

  Kramar, David ^a,d   Goodale, Wing M ^b   Kennedy, L M ^a   Carstensen, L W ^a   Kaur, Taranjat ^c  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA MARYLAND REGIONAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Senator George J Mitchell Ctr E   (United States)

Author keywords

Common loon; Environmental modeling; Geographic information systems; Mercury

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GIS; LAND COVER; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIRD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAND BIOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRUB; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BIRDS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAINE; MALE; MERCURY; WATER SUPPLY;

GAVIA IMMER; GAVIIDAE;

EID: 16844361907     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-004-6272-z     Document Type: Article

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