Trace metal concentrations are higher in cartilage than in bones of scaup and pochard wintering in Poland

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 388, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 90-103

  Kalisińska, Elzbieta ^a   Salicki, Wiesław ^a   Kavetska, Katarzyna M ^a   Ligocki, Marek ^a  

^a WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Birds; Bone; Cadmium; Cartilage; Copper; Iron; Lead; Pochard; Scaup; Trace elements; Zinc

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; BONE; CADMIUM; CARTILAGE; COPPER;

BIOMONITORING; POCHARD WINTERING; SCAUP;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

CADMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; BONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GAMEBIRD; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TRACE METAL; WATERFOWL; WINTER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BONE; BREEDING; CARTILAGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DUCK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; LEG; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CARTILAGE; DUCKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; POLAND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; SZCZECIN LAGOON; ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE;

AVES; AYTHYA; AYTHYA MARILA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 37849024001     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.07.050     Document Type: Article

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