Biomagnification of anthropogenic and naturally-produced organobrominated compounds in a marine food web from Sydney Harbour, Australia

Environment International

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1142-1149

  Losada, Sara ^a,b   Roach, Anthony ^c   Roosens, Laurence ^a   Santos, Francisco Javier ^b   Galceran, Maria Teresa ^b   Vetter, Walter ^d   Neels, Hugo ^a   Covaci, Adrian ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e Ecophysiology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Australia; Biomagnification; Brominated natural compounds; Fish; Food chain; Invertebrates; MeO PBDEs; PBDEs; PBHDs

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CHAINS; FISH; MOLLUSCS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SHELLFISH;

AUSTRALIA; BIOMAGNIFICATION; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATES; MEO-PBDES; NATURAL COMPOUNDS; PBDES; PBHDS;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

BROMINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOBROMINE DERIVATIVE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; RIVER WATER; XANTHENE DERIVATIVE;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FISH; FOOD CHAIN; LIPID; METHYL BROMIDE; PBDE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA FOOD; SQUID;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; PARRAMATTA RIVER; SYDNEY HARBOUR;

CEPHALOPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 70349314329     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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