Long-term changes in legacy trace organic contaminants and mercury in Lake Ontario salmon in relation to source controls, trophodynamics, and climatic variability

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2794-2807

  French, Todd D ^a   Campbell, Linda M ^a   Jackson, Donald A ^b   Casselman, John M ^a   Scheider, Wolfgang A ^c   Hayton, Al ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DDT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; SALMONID; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE ONTARIO; NORTH AMERICA;

ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 33845444079     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.6.2794     Document Type: Article

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