Trace elements accumulation and their variations with growth, sex and habitat: Effects on Formosan squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus)

Chemosphere

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1296-1310

  Suzuki, Yoshinari ^a   Watanabe, Izumi ^a   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^b   Kuno, Katsuji ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bio indicator; Copper accumulation; Formosan squirrel; Inter species difference; Trace element

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMARKERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); TISSUE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

COPPER ACCULMULATION; FORMOSAN SQUIRREL; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERSPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ARSENIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COPPER; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM; ZINC;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMARKERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; TISSUE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOINDICATOR; COPPER; GROWTH; HABITAT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION MONITORING; RODENT; RURAL AREA; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN POLLUTION; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BIOME; GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; SEX; SQUIRREL;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; IZU ISLANDS; IZUOSHIMA; JAPAN; KAMAKURA; KANAGAWA; KANTO; SHIZUOKA [CHUBU];

CALLOSCIURUS ERYTHRAEUS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 33746025611     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2005.12.068     Document Type: Article

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