Altered energetics and parasitism in juvenile northern pike (Esox lucius) inhabiting metal-mining contaminated lakes

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-369

  Kelly, Jocelyn M ^a,b   Janz, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioenergetics; Food webs; Northern pike; Parasitism; Uranium milling effluent

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BIOENERGETICS; BIOMASS; EFFLUENT; ENERGETICS; FOOD WEB; JUVENILE; LAKE POLLUTION; METAL; MINING; PARASITISM; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TELEOST; URANIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BIOMASS; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT; EFFLUENT TOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; GILL; INFECTION; INSECT; INTESTINE PARASITE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIPID LIVER LEVEL; LIPID STORAGE; MUSCLE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN PIKE; PARASITISM; PREY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; CESTODA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESOCIDAE; FRESH WATER; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GILLS; GLYCOGEN; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INTESTINES; LIVER; METALS; MINING; MUSCLES; NEMATODA; SASKATCHEWAN; TRIGLYCERIDES; URANIUM; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; KEY LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; SASKATCHEWAN;

ESOX LUCIUS; HEXAPODA; MONOGENEA; NOTROPIS HUDSONIUS; PISCES;

EID: 43649090581     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2008.01.022     Document Type: Article

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