Organchlorine content and shell thickness in brown booby (Sula leucogaster) eggs in the Gulf of California and the southern Pacific coast of Mexico

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2184-2188

  Mellink, Eric ^a   Riojas López, Mónica E ^b   Luévano Esparza, Jaime ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Conservation; Marine health; Pesticides; Pollution

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MARINE ENVIRONMENTS; MARINE HEALTH; ME-XICO; NEAR SHORES; ORGANOCHLORINES; SHELL THICKNESS; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

LANDFORMS; MARINE POLLUTION; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PESTICIDES;

PEST CONTROL;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHLORPHENOTANE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDE; DDT; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; EGGSHELL; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NATURE CONSERVATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEABIRD;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG SHELL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CALIFORNIA; DDT; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; EGG SHELL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MEXICO; PESTICIDE RESIDUES;

AVES; SULA LEUCOGASTER;

EID: 67349094476     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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