Retrospective monitoring of organotin compounds in freshwater fish from 1988 to 2003: Results from the German environmental specimen bank

Chemosphere

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1884-1894

  Rüdel, Heinz ^a   Müller, Josef ^a   Steinhanses, Jürgen ^a   Schröter Kermani, Christa ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Environmental specimen bank; Organotin compounds; Retrospective monitoring; Tributyltin (TBT); Triphenyltin (TPT)

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMARKERS; DEGRADATION; EXTRACTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; TOXIC MATERIALS;

BIOMONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIMEN BANK; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; RETROSPECTIVE MONITORING; TRIBUTYLTIN (TBT); TRIPHENYLTIN (TPT);

WATER POLLUTION;

FRESH WATER; FUNGICIDE; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; TRIBUTYLTIN; TRIPHENYLTIN;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMARKERS; DEGRADATION; EXTRACTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; TOXIC MATERIALS; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTIFOULING AGENT; BIOMONITORING; FISH; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; SPECIMEN BANK; TRIBUTYLTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTRACTION; FISH; FRESH WEIGHT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GERMANY; LAKE; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; ELBE RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LAKE BELAU; MULDE RIVER; RHINE RIVER; SAALE RIVER; SAAR RIVER; SAXONY-ANHALT; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN;

ABRAMIS BRAMA; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA;

EID: 33845235426     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.08.014     Document Type: Article

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