Brominated flame retardants and organochlorine pollutants in eggs of little owls (Athene noctua) from Belgium

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-88

  Jaspers, Veerle ^a   Covaci, Adrian ^a   Maervoet, Johan ^a   Dauwe, Tom ^a   Voorspoels, Stefan ^a   Schepens, Paul ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Brominated flame retardants; Eggs; Little owl; Organochlorine pesticides; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; BROMINE; COGENERATION PLANTS; ETHERS; LIPIDS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

BROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS (PBDE); HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE (HBCD); ORGANOCHLORINATED PESTICIDES (OCP); POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS (PCB);

FLAME RETARDANTS;

CHLORDANE; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; FLAME RETARDANT; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LIPID; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; STYRENE DERIVATIVE;

BIOACCUMULATION; EGG; ORGANOCHLORINE; PBDE; PCB; RAPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BIRD; BROMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EGG; EGG SHELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OWL; PREDATOR; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THICKNESS;

ANIMALS; BELGIUM; EGGS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLAME RETARDANTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PESTICIDES; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; STRIGIFORMES;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ATHENE NOCTUA; AVES; NOCTUA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 18944378511     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2004.12.003     Document Type: Article

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