Metal and metalloid accumulation in shrews (Soricomorpha, Mammalia) from two protected Mediterranean coastal sites

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1243-1248

  Sánchez Chardi, Alejandro ^a,b   López Fuster, María José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age; Crocidura russula; Ebro Delta; Metals; Protected Mediterranean sites; Sex

Indexed keywords

AGE; CROCIDURA RUSSULA; EBRO DELTA; PROTECTED MEDITERRANEAN SITES; SEX;

BARIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; BONE; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; CHROMIUM; COASTAL ENGINEERING; HEAVY METALS; MAMMALS; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MOLYBDENUM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STRONTIUM; TOXIC MATERIALS; ZINC;

METALS;

AGE STRUCTURE; BIOACCUMULATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE PARK; METAL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SMALL MAMMAL; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; METALS; REFERENCE VALUES; SHREWS; SPAIN; WETLANDS;

CATALONIA; EBRO DELTA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TARRAGONA [CATALONIA];

CROCIDURA; CROCIDURA RUSSULA; MAMMALIA; SORICIDAE; SORICOMORPHA;

EID: 60949096127     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.11.047     Document Type: Article

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