Bioaccumulation of organochlorines in crows from an Indian open waste dumping site: Evidence for direct transfer of dioxin-like congeners from the contaminated soil

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4421-4430

  Watanabe, Michio X ^a   Iwata, Hisato ^a   Watanabe, Mafumi ^a   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a   Subramanian, Annamalai ^a   Yoneda, Kumiko ^a   Hashimoto, Takuma ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; LIPIDS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SOILS; WASTES;

BIOCONCENTRATION FACTORS (BCF); DUMPING SITES; ORGANOCHLORINES; TROPHIC TRANSFER;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ORGANOCHLORINE; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BREAST; DUMPING; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; INDIA; MALE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; SOIL POLLUTION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ANIMALS; CROWS; DIOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INDIA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

CORVIDAE;

EID: 20744445018     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050057r     Document Type: Article

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