Site-specific assessments of environmental risk and natural resource damage based on great horned owls

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 966-985

  Zwiernik, Matthew J ^a,e   Strause, Karl D ^a   Kay, Denise P ^b   Blankenship, Alan L ^a,b   Giesy, John P ^a,c,d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ENTRIX INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e 224 National Food Safety and Toxicology Bld   (United States)

Author keywords

ERA; Exposure assessment; Great horned owl; Multiple lines of evidence; Raptor; Receptor

Indexed keywords

BUBO VIRGINIANUS; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 34848879180     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030701506595     Document Type: Article

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