Arsenic Uptake by Reptile Flexible-Shelled Eggs from Contaminated Nest Substrates and Toxic Effect on Embryos

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 983-990

  Marco, A ^a   Lopez Vicente M ^b   Perez Mellado V ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EGG; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; INCUBATION TIME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NESTING; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; REPTILE; RISK FACTOR; SOIL POLLUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

INVERTEBRATA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1942438058     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-004-0340-1     Document Type: Article

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