Temporal trends and spatial distribution of non-polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants in the eggs of colonial populations of Great Lakes herring gulls

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 312-317

  Gauthier, Lewis T ^a   Potter, Dave ^b   Hebert, Craig E ^a   Letcher, Robert J ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Research Division   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; DECABROMODIPHENYL ETHANES; DECABROMODIPHENYL ETHERS; DETECTION FREQUENCIES; DIPHENYL ETHERS; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES; GREAT LAKES; HEXABROMOBENZENE; LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; POLY-BROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL TRENDS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; WET WEIGHTS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; ETHANE; ETHERS; FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT; FLAME RETARDANTS; ISOMERS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

LAKES;

1,2 BIS(2,4,6 TRIBROMOPHENOXY)ETHANE; 1,2 DIBROMO 4 (1,2 DIBROMOETHYL)CYCLOHEXANE; 1,2 DIBROMO-4 (1,2 DIBROMOETHYL)CYCLOHEXANE; 1,2,5,6 TETRABROMOCYCLOOCTANE; BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANT; DECABROMODIPHENYLETHANE; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; FLAME RETARDANT; HEXABROMOBENZENE; NONPOLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 1,2-BIS(2,4,6-TRIBROMOPHENOXY)ETHANE; 1,2-DIBROMO-4-(1,2-DIBROMOETHYL)CYCLOHEXANE; BROMOBENZENE; CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVE; DECABROMODIPHENYL ETHANE;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EGG; ETHER; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; LAURENTIA; PBDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; BROMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HERRING; HERRING GULL; ISOMER; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; ISOMERISM; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

LARUS ARGENTATUS;

ANIMALS; BROMOBENZENES; CHARADRIIFORMES; CYCLOHEXANES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLAME RETARDANTS; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT LAKES REGION; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; ISOMERISM; OVUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 62749129844     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801687d     Document Type: Article

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