PCB levels and accumulation patterns in waterbird eggs and in their prey at Lake Kerkini, a north-eastern Mediterranean wetland of international importance

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-260

  Antoniadou, V ^a   Konstantinou, I K ^b   Goutner, V ^a   Sakellarides, T M ^b   Albanis, T A ^b   Bintoudi, E ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EGG; PCB; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BIRD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; EGG; GEOMETRY; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; GREECE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RANIDAE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZYGOTE;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; KERKINI LAKE; SERRAI; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALBURNUS ALBURNUS; ARDEA CINEREA; AVES; CARASSIUS AURATUS; EGRETTA GARZETTA; LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS; NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PODICEPS CRISTATUS; RANA SP.; RUTILUS RUTILUS;

EID: 34250799728     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-006-0176-2     Document Type: Article

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