Effects of laying order and experimentally increased egg production on organic pollutants in eggs of a terrestrial songbird species, the great tit (Parus major)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 4764-4770

  Van den Steen, Evi ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a   Jaspers, Veerle L B ^a   Covaci, Adrian ^a   Pinxten, Rianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Eggs; Laying order; Organic pollutants; Passerine; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; CLUTCH SIZE; EGG PRODUCTION; EGGS; GREAT TIT; LAYING ORDER; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERINE; PCB CONGENERS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; ETHERS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUITS;

CLUTCHES;

CHLORPHENOTANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOMONITORING; CLUTCH SIZE; EGG PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAYING DATE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PBDE; PCB; SONGBIRD;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLUTCH SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; BELGIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ETHERS; FEMALE; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRDS;

PARUS MAJOR; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 67349084616     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.04.045     Document Type: Article

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