Overwinter alterations in energy stores and growth in juvenile fishes inhabiting areas receiving metal mining and municipal wastewater effluents

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 296-304

  Driedger, Kimberlea ^a   Weber, Lynn P ^a   Rickwood, Carrie J ^a   Dusé, Monique G ^a   Janz, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Growth; Juvenile fish; Lipids; Metal mining; Overwinter

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINATIONS; CONTAMINANT EXPOSURES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FATHEAD MINNOWS; FISH SPECIES; FOOD AVAILABILITIES; GROWTH; JUVENILE FISH; METAL MINING; MUNICIPAL WASTES; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; ONTARIO , CANADA; OVERWINTER; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; REDUCED ENERGIES; REFERENCE SITES; STORED ENERGIES; WHITE SUCKERS; WHOLE BODIES; WINTER CONDITIONS;

EFFLUENTS; ENERGY STORAGE; FLYWHEELS; FOOD STORAGE; LIPIDS; MEATS; METALS; MINING; MUSCLE; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROTEINS; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

FISH;

DNA; MUSCLE PROTEIN; RNA; SELENIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BIOENERGETICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FISH; GROWTH RESPONSE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; JUVENILE; MINING; OVERWINTERING; SURVIVAL; WASTEWATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BODY GROWTH; CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT TOXICITY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FISH; JUVENILE; MINING; NONHUMAN; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMOTILUS ATROMACULATUS; SPRING; SURVIVAL; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; ENERGY METABOLISM; FISHES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS; MINING; SEASONS; TRIGLYCERIDES; WATER POLLUTANTS;

CANADA; JUNCTION CREEK; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SUDBURY;

CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PISCES; SEMOTILUS; SEMOTILUS ATROMACULATUS;

EID: 61349184354     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-028.1     Document Type: Article

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