PCBs and DDE in tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) eggs and nestlings from an estuarine PCB superfund site, New Bedford Harbor, MA, U.S.A.

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8387-8392

  Jayaraman, Saro ^a   Nacci, Diane E ^a   Champlin, Denise M ^a   Pruell, Richard J ^a   Rocha, Kenneth J ^a   Custer, Christine M ^b   Custer, Thomas W ^b   Cantwell, Mark ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORS; BREEDING GROUNDS; DICHLOROETHENES; GROUND SOURCE; HIGH CONCENTRATION; LINKED TREE; MASSACHUSETTS , USA; NEST BOXES; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RHODE ISLAND; SALT MARSHES; SUPERFUND SITES; TREE SWALLOW; WET WEIGHT;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTAMINATION; ESTUARIES; ETHANE; MARINE POLLUTION; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; BREEDING SITE; DDE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INSECTIVORE; METABOLITE; NESTLING; PASSERINE; PCB; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SUPERFUND;

ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; ESTUARY; NONHUMAN; SONGBIRD; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHYL ETHERS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MASSACHUSETTS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; REPRODUCTION; RIVERS; SWALLOWS; UNITED STATES;

TACHYCINETA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 70350761973     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900255v     Document Type: Article

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