Long-term trends in the prevalence of cancer and other major diseases among flatfish in the southeastern North Sea as indicators of changing ecosystem health

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2151-2158

  Vethaak, A Dick ^a   Jol, Johan G ^b   Pieters, Jan P F ^c  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b Institute of Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies   (Netherlands)

^c RIJKSWATERSTAAT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTHS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FISH CONDITION FACTORS; FISHING ACTIVITIES; HEALTH CONDITIONS; INTESTINAL PARASITES; LIVER CANCERS; LONG-TERM TRENDS; NORTH SEAS; POPULATION DENSITIES; SKIN DISEASE; TEMPORAL PATTERNS; WATER TEMPERATURES;

DERMATOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; SKIN; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

LIVER;

CANCER; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FLATFISH; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDERMIS HYPERPLASIA; FISH DISEASE; FLATFISH; FLOUNDER; LIVER CANCER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYSTIS; NEOPLASM; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PAPILLOMA; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; SKIN ULCER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FISH DISEASES; FLATFISHES; NEOPLASMS; NORTH SEA; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

GLUGEA SP.; LIMANDA LIMANDA; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTIFORMES; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 64549155566     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8028523     Document Type: Article

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