Metals and organochlorine pesticides in caudal scutes of crocodiles from Belize and Costa Rica

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 373, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 146-156

  Rainwater, Thomas R ^a   Wu, Ted H ^a   Finger, Adam G ^a   Cañas, Jaclyn E ^a   Yu, Lu ^a   Reynolds, Kevin D ^a   Coimbatore, Gopal ^a   Barr, Brady ^b   Platt, Steven G ^c   Cobb, George P ^a   Anderson, Todd A ^a   McMurry, Scott T ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Geographic Magazine   (United States)

^c SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American crocodile; Belize; Central America; Costa Rica; Metals; Morelet's crocodile; Non lethal sampling; Organochlorine pesticides; Scutes

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HEAVY METALS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; PESTICIDES; TOXICITY;

AMERICAN CROCODILE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS; MORELET'S CROCODILE; NON-LETHAL SAMPLING; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES;

WATER POLLUTION;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CADMIUM; CHLORPHENOTANE; COPPER; ENDRIN; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; LEAD; MERCURY; METAL; METHOXYCHLOR; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CROCODILIAN; METAL; NEOTROPICAL REGION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BELIZE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; ECOTOXICITY; FEMALE; MALE; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BELIZE; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MALE; METALS, HEAVY;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

ANIMALIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS ACUTUS; CROCODYLUS MORELETII;

EID: 33846241666     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.11.010     Document Type: Article

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