Analysis and human health risk assessment of arsenic, cadmium, and mercury in Manta birostris (manta ray) caught along the Ghanaian coastline

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 985-998

  Essumang, D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Dixcove; Fante; Kako; Madai; Manta birostris; NAA; Xenobiotic

Indexed keywords

MANTA BIROSTRIS; MOBULINAE;

EID: 75649116157     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030903153451     Document Type: Article

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