A terrestrial food-chain bioaccumulation model for POPs

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4019-4025

  Armitage, James M ^a   Gobas, Frank A P C ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; MAMMALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

AQUATIC SYSTEMS; BIOACCUMULATION MODELS; WATER-BREATHING ORGANISMS;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

OCTANOL;

BIOACCUMULATION; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MAMMALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

BIOACCUMULATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; EARTHWORM; FOOD CHAIN; HALF LIFE TIME; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL INVERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; HALF-LIFE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGOCHAETA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHREWS; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

AVES; MAMMALIA; SORICIDAE;

EID: 34250172720     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0700597     Document Type: Article

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