Highly persistent butyltins in northern marine sediments: A long-term threat for the Saguenay Fjord (Canada)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2673-2681

  Viglino, Liza ^a   Pelletier, Émilien ^a   St Louis, Richard ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Butyltin; Butyltin adsorption; Degradation kinetic; Persistence; Tributyltin diffusion

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BUTYLTINS; DIFFUSIVE FLUX; MARINE SEDIMENTS;

SEDIMENTS;

ANTIFOULING AGENT; BUTYLTIN; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; TRIBUTYLTIN;

BUTYLTIN; FJORD; MARINE SEDIMENT; PERSISTENCE; SEDIMENT CORE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TOXICOKINETICS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALF-LIFE; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; PAINT; SOLUBILITY; TRIALKYLTIN COMPOUNDS; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SAGUENAY FJORD;

RHODOCOCCUS RHODOCHROUS;

EID: 5444268549     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-674     Document Type: Article

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