Effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on China's rivers and coastal waters

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 378-386

  An, Wei ^a   Hu, Jianying ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTYLTIN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COASTAL SEDIMENT; COASTAL WATER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; IMPOSEX; RIVER WATER; WATERSHED;

ASIA; CHINA; DALIAN; DAYA BAY; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGAO BAY; GUANGDONG; GUANGXI ZHUANGZU; HAIMEN BAY; LIAONING; QINGDAO; SHANDONG; SHANGHAI; TIANJIN;

ACIPENSER SINENSIS; CARASSIUS CARASSIUS; CYPRINUS CARPIO; GASTROPODA; NYCTICORAX;

EID: 33748412892     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)004[0378:EOEDCO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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