Cadmium bioaccumulation factors for terrestrial species: Application of the mechanistic bioaccumulation model OMEGA to explain field data

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 406, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 413-418

  Veltman, Karin ^a   Huijbregts, Mark A J ^a   Hendriks, A Jan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Bioaccumulation model; Cadmium; Terrestrial ecosystem

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CADMIUM; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MAMMALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SOILS;

BIOACCUMULATION FACTORS; BIOACCUMULATION MODEL; BIOACCUMULATION MODELS; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; FIELD DATA; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; OPTIMAL MODELING; SMALL MAMMALS; SOIL CONCENTRATIONS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC LEVELS; UPTAKE KINETICS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CADMIUM;

BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EARTHWORM; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENT; SOIL POLLUTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MOLE (INSECTIVORA); PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHREW; SNAIL; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; VOLE;

ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CADMIUM; MAMMALS; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

GASTROPODA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; SORICIDAE;

ACCUMULATION FACTORS; BIOACCUMULATION FACTOR; BIOACCUMULATION MODELS; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; SOIL CONCENTRATIONS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 53549109133     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.049     Document Type: Article

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