Organochlorine compounds in trout from lakes over a 1600 meter elevation gradient in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2723-2729

  Demers, Marc J ^a,b   Kelly, Erin N ^c   Blais, Jules M ^a   Pick, Frances R ^a   St Louis, Vincent L ^c   Schindler, David W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISH; LAKES; PESTICIDES;

FISH GROWTH RATE; ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUNDS; PARTITION COEFFICIENT;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

CHLORPHENOTANE; DIELDRIN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; OCTANOL; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; WATER;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISH; LAKES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PESTICIDES;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ELEVATION; FISH; GROWTH RATE; LAKE POLLUTION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; ORGANOCHLORINE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CANADA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELEVATION GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GROWTH RATE; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROUT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; CANADA; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; TROUT;

ALBERTA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

SALMONIDAE;

EID: 34247243257     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es062428p     Document Type: Article

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