High within-individual variation in total mercury concentration in seabird feathers

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2375-2377

  Bond, Alexander L ^a,b   Diamond, Antony W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feather; Mercury; Monitoring; Seabird; Variation

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LEACHING;

FEATHER; LARGE RANGES; MERCURY; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; RANDOMIZATION PROCEDURES; SEABIRD; TOTAL MERCURIES; VARIATION;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; FEATHER; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RESEARCH WORK; SEABIRD; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEATHER; NONHUMAN; OCEANODROMA LEUCORHOA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; STERNA HIRUNDO; STERNA PARADISAEA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEATHERS; MERCURY;

HYDROBATINAE; OCEANODROMA LEUCORHOA; STERNA HIRUNDO; STERNA PARADISAEA;

EID: 56049120086     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-163.1     Document Type: Article

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