Effect of in ovo exposure to PCBs and Hg on clapper rail bone mineral chemistry from a contaminated salt marsh in coastal Georgia

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 4936-4942

  Rodriguez Navarro, Alejandro B ^a   Romanek, Christopher S ^b,c   Alvarez Lloret, Pedro ^a   Gaines, Karen F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MINERAL; ESTUARINE MARSH SYSTEMS; SALT MARSH; SPECTROSCOPY DATA;

BONE; BORON; COMPOSITION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

COASTAL ZONES;

CALCIUM; CARBONIC ACID; MERCURY; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BONE; BORON; COASTAL ZONES; COMPOSITION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

BIRD; BONE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PCB; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SALTMARSH;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BONE; BONE MINERAL; BONE REMODELING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLAPPER RAIL; CRYSTALLIZATION; ESTUARY; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MARSH; NONHUMAN; SEASHORE;

ACIDS; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FISHES; GEORGIA; MERCURY; OVUM; PHOSPHATES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SALTS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS; SPONDIAS PURPUREA;

EID: 33747465115     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es060769x     Document Type: Article

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