Exploring the use of caged Nucella lapillus to monitor changes to TBT hotspot areas: A trial in the River Tyne estuary (UK)

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-163

  Smith, A J ^a   Thain, J E ^a   Barry, J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cage studies; Gastropods; Imposex; Monitoring; Mytilus; Organotins; UK

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CYTOLOGY; ESTUARIES; OCEANOGRAPHIC SUBMARINES; PAINT; TISSUE;

CAGE STUDIES; GASTROPODS; IMPOSEX; MYTILUS; ORGANOTINS; UK;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ANTIFOULING AGENT; PAINT; TRIBUTYLTIN;

BIOMONITORING; HOT SPOT; IMPOSEX; SNAIL; TRIBUTYLTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; FEMALE; GENITAL MALFORMATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IMPOSEX; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOLLUSC; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; NUCELLA LAPILLUS; RIVER; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GASTROPODA; GREAT BRITAIN; MALE; RIVERS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRIALKYLTIN COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; TYNE ESTUARY [ENGLAND]; TYNE RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

MYTILUS EDULIS; NUCELLA LAPILLUS;

EID: 33745662675     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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