Concentrations and patterns of organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus) from Western Sahara and Greece

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 381, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 316-325

  Borrell, Assumpció ^a   Cantos, Gemma ^a   Aguilar, Alex ^a   Androukaki, Eugenia ^b   Dendrinos, Panagiotis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b MOm/Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal   (Greece)

Author keywords

DDT; HCB; Mediterranean monk seal; Organochlorine compounds; Pinnipeds conservation; Pollution; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; WATER POLLUTION;

DDT; HCB; MEDITERRANEAN MONK SEALS; ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUNDS; PINNIPEDS CONSERVATIONS;

PESTICIDES;

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FAT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; LACTATION; MARINE POLLUTION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PESTICIDE; PINNIPED; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREECE; LACTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WESTERN SAHARA;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GREECE; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PESTICIDES; SEALS, EARLESS; SEX FACTORS;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SAHARA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; MONACHUS MONACHUS; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 34249797894     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.03.013     Document Type: Article

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