Emerging opportunities in management of selenium contamination

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 8483-8487

  Luoma, Samuel N ^a,b   Presser, Theresa S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECO-TOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL LEVELS;

BIOLOGY;

SELENIUM;

SELENIUM;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; SELENIUM; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIZATION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SELENIUM;

EID: 72249114486     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900828h     Document Type: Review

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