Evaluation of potentially nonlethal sampling methods for monitoring mercury concentrations in smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 84-95

  Schmitt, C J ^a   Brumbaugh, W G ^a  

^a Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD; ELECTROFISHING; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PERCIFORM; POLLUTION MONITORING;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BASS; BIOPSY; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMBUSTION; CONTAMINATION; FISH; FISHING; FREEZE DRYING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PERCIFORMES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYRINGE; UNITED STATES; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASS; BIOPSY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; MALE; MERCURY; MISSOURI; MUSCLES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

MISSOURI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU;

EID: 34249807898     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-006-0214-0     Document Type: Article

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