Transfer and accumulation of metals in a soil-diet-wood mouse food chain along a metal pollution gradient

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 516-528

  Rogival, Damien ^a   Scheirs, Jan ^a   Blust, Ronny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Apodemus sylvaticus; Cadmium; Food chain; Heavy metals; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOOD PRODUCTS; HEAVY METALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMELTING; TISSUE;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; FOOD CHAIN; METAL POLLUTION GRADIENT; METAL TRANSFER;

BIODIVERSITY;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; DIET; FOOD CHAIN; METAL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RODENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; BODY WEIGHT; CADMIUM; COPPER; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CHAIN; LEAD; METALLURGY; METALS, HEAVY; MURINAE; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ZINC;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS;

EID: 33751405123     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.04.019     Document Type: Article

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