Parental exposure to pesticides and poor clutch viability in American alligators

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5559-5563

  Rauschenberger, R Heath ^a   Wiebe, Jon J ^b   Sepúlveda, Maria S ^c   Scarborough, Janet E ^b   Gross, Timothy S ^d  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENZYME INHIBITION; MIXTURES; CLUTCHES; LAKES; PESTICIDES;

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; POOR CLUTCH VIABILITY;

PESTICIDES; LAKE POLLUTION;

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE;

ECOSYSTEMS; ENZYME INHIBITION; MIXTURES; PESTICIDES;

CAPTIVE POPULATION; CLUTCH SIZE; CROCODILIAN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; HABITAT QUALITY; LAKE POLLUTION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REFERENCE SAMPLE; SURVIVORSHIP; VIABILITY;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HABITAT; HATCHING; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PARENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; OVUM; PESTICIDES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES);

AMERICAN ALLIGATORS; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CAUSE-AND-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; DIETARY EXPOSURE; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; FIELD STUDIES; FLORIDA; LABORATORY STUDIES; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES;

EID: 34547655586     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0628194     Document Type: Article

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