Temporal and geographic trends in mercury concentrations in muscle tissue in five species of Hudson River, USA, fish

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1691-1697

  Levinton D, Jeffrey S ^a   Pochron, Sharon T ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish; Geographic trend; Hudson River; Mercury; Temporal trend

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FISH; FOOD PROCESSING; LANDFORMS; MERCURY (METAL); MUSCLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; WATERSHEDS;

GEOGRAPHIC TREND; HUDSON RIVER; LARGEMOUTH BASS; MERCURY; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; MUSCLE TISSUES; NEW YORK; POINT SOURCES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REGRESSION MODELLING; TEMPORAL TREND;

RIVER POLLUTION;

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; CYPRINID; DATABASE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MUSCLE; PERCID; PERCIFORM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOXIN; WATERSHED;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FISH; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER; SEDIMENT; TEMPORAL BONE; UNITED STATES; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; MERCURY; MUSCLES; NEW YORK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

HUDSON RIVER; NEW YORK HARBOR; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CYPRINIDAE; MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU; MORONE; PERCA;

EID: 48949101137     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-438.1     Document Type: Article

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