Contaminant exposure of barn swallows nesting on bayou d'Inde, Calcasieu Estuary, Louisiana, USA

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 121, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 541-558

  Custer, Thomas W ^a   Custer, Christine M ^a   Goatcher, Buddy L ^b   Melancon, Mark J ^c   Matson, Cole W ^d   Bickham, John W ^d  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barn swallows; EROD activity; Metals; PCBs; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DNA; ECOSYSTEMS; METALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BARN SWALLOWS; ETHOXYRESORUFIN-O-DEALKYLASE ACTIVITY; NESTLING LIVERS;

CONTAMINATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; ETHOXYRESORUFIN DEETHYLASE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RUNOFF; STORM WATER; TRACE ELEMENT; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1;

BIOMARKER; BIRD; DNA; EGG; METAL; NESTLING; PAH; PCB; POLLUTION EFFECT;

ACCIDENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; EGG; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTUARY; LIVER; NESTING; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAM (RIVER); SWALLOW (BIRD); UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENZYMOLOGY; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD; WATER POLLUTANT;

CALCASIEU ESTUARY; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP1A1; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LIVER; LOUISIANA; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; SWALLOWS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 33750324108     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-9153-x     Document Type: Article

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