Body distribution of trace elements in black-tailed gulls from Rishiri Island, Japan: Age-dependent accumulation and transfer to feathers and eggs

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2107-2120

  Agusa, Tetsuro ^a   Matsumoto, Taro ^a   Ikemoto, Tokutaka ^a   Anan, Yasumi ^a   Kubota, Reiji ^a   Yasunaga, Genta ^a   Kunito, Takashi ^b   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a   Ogi, Haruo ^c   Shibata, Yasuyuki ^d  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feather; Heavy metals; Maternal transfer; Seabirds; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; CHROMIUM; CONTAMINATION; MANGANESE; SILVER; VANADIUM;

FEATHERS; MATERNAL TRANSFER; SEABIRDS; TRANSFER RATES;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANTIMONY; BARIUM; CADMIUM; CESIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; KERATIN; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; MOLYBDENUM; RUBIDIUM; SELENIUM; SILVER; STRONTIUM; THALLIUM; THIOL GROUP; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM; ZINC;

TRACE ELEMENT;

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BODY DISTRIBUTION; BONE; EGG; FEATHER; FEMALE; JAPAN; LIVER; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONITORING; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BONE AND BONES; CHARADRIIFORMES; CHROMIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEATHERS; FEMALE; JAPAN; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MERCURY; OVUM; SELENIUM; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; RISHIRI ISLAND; WORLD;

AVES; LARUS CRASSIROSTRIS;

EID: 23944516990     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/04-617R.1     Document Type: Article

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