Mercury bioaccumulation and risk to three waterbird foraging guilds is influenced by foraging ecology and breeding stage

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1993-2002

  Eagles Smith, Collin A ^a   Ackerman, Joshua T ^a   De La Cruz, Susan E W ^a   Takekawa, John Y ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Bird; Breeding; Habitat; Mercury

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; FORSTER; HABITAT; HG CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY; MERCURY BIOACCUMULATIONS; MUDFLATS; SAN FRANCISCO BAYS; TIME SPENT; TROPHIC POSITIONS; WATERBIRDS;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

BAY; BIOACCUMULATION; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INVERTEBRATE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MUDFLAT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORAGING; HABITAT; MALE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CALIFORNIA; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEATHERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; KIDNEY; LIVER; MERCURY; MUSCLES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; WETLANDS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; LARIDAE; MELANITTA PERSPICILLATA; STERNA CASPIA;

EID: 67349107178     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.03.030     Document Type: Article

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