A new index for evaluation of cadmium pollution in birds and mammals

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 137, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 35-49

  Mochizuki, Mariko ^a   Mori, Makoto ^b   Hondo, Ryo ^a   Ueda, Fukiko ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological monitoring; Cadmium; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; CADMIUM; CONTAMINATION; MAMMALS; POLLUTION DETECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; NON-POLLUTED WARM-BLOODED ANIMALS; WILDLIFE;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS;

CADMIUM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIRD; CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDEX METHOD; MAMMAL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION TOLERANCE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIRD; CADMIUM POISONING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DUCKS AND GEESE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; RAT; RELIABILITY; SEABIRD; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MAMMALS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANATIDAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 38349053357     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9727-x     Document Type: Article

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