Mercury concentrations in blood and feathers of prebreeding Forster's terns in relation to space use of San Francisco Bay, California, USA, habitats

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 897-908

  Ackerman, Joshua T ^a   Eagles Smith, Collin A ^a,b   Takekawa, John Y ^c   Bluso, Jill D ^d   Adelsbach, Terrence L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Mercury; San Francisco Bay; Telemetry; Terns

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MERCURY (METAL); NUTRITION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELEMETERING;

DIETARY MERCURY; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; TERNS;

BIRDS;

MERCURY;

BLOOD; BREEDING POPULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIET; FEATHER; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RADIOTELEMETRY; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SPACE USE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD; BREEDING; FEATHER; FEMALE; MALE; MARSH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SAMPLING; SEX; SPACE; STERNA FORSTERI; TELEMETRY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; FEATHERS; MERCURY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

AVES; LARIDAE; STERNA FORSTERI;

EID: 42049106199     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-230.1     Document Type: Article

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