Soil ingestion may be an important route for the uptake of contaminants by some reptiles

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 311-315

  Rich, C Nelson ^a,b   Talent, Larry G ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Environmental Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminant uptake; Growth; Lizard; Selenium; Soil ingestion

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CONTAMINANT UPTAKE; CONTROL GROUPS; DRY SANDS; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL STUDIES; GROWTH; LIZARD; SAND MIXTURES; SODIUM SELENITES; SOIL CONTAMINANTS;

CONTAMINATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; IMPURITIES; MAMMALS; MIXTURES; SAFETY FACTOR; SAND; SELENIUM; SODIUM;

SOILS;

SELENIUM; SODIUM SELENITE;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BODY MASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; LIZARD; SELENIUM; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY GROWTH; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INGESTION; LEOPARD GECKO; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; REPTILES; SELENIUM; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

AVES; EUBLEPHARIS MACULARIUS; GEKKONIDAE; MAMMALIA; PANTHERA PARDUS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 61349173923     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-035.1     Document Type: Article

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