Monitoring of chlorinated pesticides and PCBS in the eastern Adriatic coastal waters using mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis as indicator

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 17, Issue 11 B, 2008, Pages 1891-1900

  Milun, Vesna ^a   Zvonarić, Tomislav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Adriatic sea; Chlorinated pesticides; Monitoring; Mussels; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BIVALVE; COASTAL WATER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; PCB; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS;

EID: 57649121608     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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