Mercury correlations among six tissues for four waterbird species breeding in San Francisco Bay, California, USA

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2136-2153

  Eagles Smith, Collin A ^a   Ackerman, Joshua T ^a   Adelsbach, Terrence L ^b   Takekawa, John Y ^c   Miles, A Keith ^a   Keister, Robin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Blood; Feathers; Mercury; Tissue correlations

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; BLOOD; FEATHERS; MERCURY; TISSUE CORRELATIONS;

CURING; CURVE FITTING; HISTOLOGY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; STAGES; TISSUE;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

BIRD; BLOOD; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; FEATHER; MERCURY (ELEMENT); REGRESSION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BREAST; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEATHER; HEAD; KIDNEY; LIFE CYCLE; LIVER LEVEL; MUSCLE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL; UNITED STATES; WATER BIRD;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEATHERS; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; SAN FRANCISCO; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

AVES; HIMANTOPUS MEXICANUS; HYDROPROGNE CASPIA; LARIDAE; RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA; STERNA CASPIA; STERNA FORSTERI;

EID: 53949112059     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-038.1     Document Type: Article

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