Assessment of stress-related bioindicators in winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus) exposed to discharges from a pulp and paper mill in Newfoundland: A 5-year field study

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-110

  Khan, R A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; SULFITE;

BIOINDICATOR; BLEACHING; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LESION;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLACK SPOT DISEASE; BLEACHING; BODY SIZE; CANADA; CONDITION FACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOTYLE LINGUA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH DISEASE; FLOUNDER; FORAGING; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADOSOMATIC INDEX; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEPATOMEGALY; HEPATOSOMATIC INDEX; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INFESTATION; NONHUMAN; PAPER INDUSTRY; PARASITE; PLEURONECTES AMERICANUS; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULP MILL; PULP PROCESSING; STERINGOPHORUS FURCIGER; STRESS; TISSUE INJURY;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; FLOUNDER; GONADS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIVER; MALE; NEWFOUNDLAND; OPISTHORCHIDAE; PAPER; SKIN DISEASES; STRESS; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT GEORGE'S BAY [NEWFOUNDLAND];

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOCOTYLE LINGUA; PLEURONECTOIDEI; PSEUDOPLEURONECTES AMERICANUS; STERINGOPHORUS FURCIGER;

EID: 33646420873     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-005-0166-9     Document Type: Article

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