Clapper rails as indicators of mercury and PCB bioavailability in a Georgia saltmarsh system

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 485-494

  Cumbee Jr , J C ^a   Gaines, K F ^b   Mills, G L ^a   Garvin, N ^a   Stephens Jr , W L ^a   Novak, J M ^b   Brisbin Jr , I L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aroclor 1268; Clapper rail; Mercury; PCB; Superfund; Trophic transfer

Indexed keywords

AROCLOR; MERCURY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BENTHOS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOINDICATOR; CRAB; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; HOME RANGE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PCB; POULTRY; SALTMARSH; SITE FIDELITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUPERFUND; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIRD; CLAPPER RAIL; CONTAMINATION; CRAB; FEMALE; FORAGING; HOME RANGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT MARSH; SEDIMENT; TROPHIC CASCADE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; AROCLORS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BIRDS; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEORGIA; LIVER; MALE; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OVUM;

BRUNSWICK [GEORGIA]; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS;

EID: 45849146548     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-008-0202-4     Document Type: Article

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