Total arsenic accumulation in yabbies (Cherax destructor clark) exposed to elevated arsenic levels in Victorian gold mining areas, Australia

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1332-1342

  Williams, Gemma ^a   West, Jan M ^a   Snow, Elizabeth T ^a,b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arsenate; Arsenite; Environmental contamination; Freshwater crustacean; Mining

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CANNING; DAMS; FOOD PRESERVATION; GOLD; HEAVY METALS; METALS; MINING; OCEAN HABITATS; SEDIMENTATION; TISSUE;

ARSENIC ACCUMULATION; ARSENIC CONCENTRATIONS; ARSENIC LEVELS; AUSTRALIA; CHERAX DESTRUCTOR; COMMERCIAL MARKETS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GOLD MINING; H IGH CONCENTRATIONS; INORGANIC ARSENIC; INTERNATIONAL (CO); MINE TAILINGS; WILD ANIMALS;

NONMETALS;

ARSENIC; CARCINOGEN; GOLD; HEAVY METAL;

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; CARCINOGEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTACEAN; MINE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TAILINGS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEPATOPANCREAS; MALE; MINE TAILINGS; MINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; WILD ANIMAL; YABBY;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; AUSTRALIA; CRUSTACEA; FEMALE; GOLD; MALE; MINING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; CHERAX DESTRUCTOR; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PARASTACIDAE;

EID: 45249092776     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-407.1     Document Type: Article

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