Mammalian hair as an accumulative bioindicator of metal bioavailability in Australian terrestrial environments

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3588-3596

  McLean, Christopher M ^a,b   Koller, Claudia E ^a   Rodger, John C ^a   MacFarlane, Geoff R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioindicator; Hair; Heavy metals; Mammal; Marsupial

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BIOINDICATOR; CLOSE PROXIMITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES; ESSENTIAL METALS; HAIR; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MARSUPIAL; METAL BIOAVAILABILITIES; METAL CONTAMINATIONS; NEGATIVE CORRELATIONS; SMALL MAMMALS; SOIL METAL CONCENTRATIONS; SOIL METALS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; METALS; RATS; SMELTING; SOILS; ZINC;

SOIL POLLUTION;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTAMINATED LAND; HAIR; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; METAL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RODENT; SMELTING; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HAIR; MAMMALS; METALS, HEAVY; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ANTECHINUS STUARTII; DASYURIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MURIDAE; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 62749121527     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.01.038     Document Type: Article

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