Arsenic speciation in bodily fluids of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 319-327

  Kuenstl, Linda ^a   Griesel, Simone ^b   Prange, Andreas ^b   Goessler, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arsenic speciation; HPLC ICPMS; Marine mammals; Plasma; Urine.

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HARBOR; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS MORTALITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PINNIPED; PLASMA; PORPOISE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); URINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA; PHOCOENA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 69649105302     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN08079     Document Type: Article

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