In situ reproduction, abundance, and growth of young-of-year and adult largemouth bass in a population exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1762-1773

  Reiser, Dudley W ^a   Greenberg, Emily S ^a   Helser, Thomas E ^a,b   Branton, Margaret ^c,d   Jenkins, Kenneth D ^c  

^a R2 Resource Consultants ^*  (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Blasland Bouck and Lee   (United States)

^d Branton Environmental Consulting   (Canada)

Author keywords

Growth; Housatonic River; Largemouth bass; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GROWTH KINETICS; IN SITU PROCESSING; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

ADULT GROWTH; DATA SETS; IN SITU REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE ACTIVITY;

TOXICITY;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ABUNDANCE; GROWTH; PCB; POLLUTION EFFECT; REPRODUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICITY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY; LARGEMOUTH BASS; MEASUREMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RIVER; TISSUE LEVEL; UNITED STATES; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

ANIMALS; BASS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MASSACHUSETTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RIVERS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

HOUSATONIC RIVER; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES;

EID: 2942556572     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-323     Document Type: Article

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