Evidence for biomagnification of rubidium in freshwater and marine food webs

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1161-1167

  Campbell, Linda M ^a,d   Fisk, Aaron T ^b   Wang, Xiaowa ^a   Köck, Günter ^c   Muir, Derek C G ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; FOOD WEB; RUBIDIUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

INVERTEBRATA; PHOCA HISPIDA;

EID: 24644518590     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f05-027     Document Type: Article

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