Spider-mediated flux of PCBs from contaminated sediments to terrestrial ecosystems and potential risks to arachnivorous birds

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2849-2856

  Walters, David M ^a,b   Mills, Marc A ^a   Fritz, Ken M ^a   Raikow, David F ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC INSECTS; CHIRONOMIDS; CONTAMINANT FLUX; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT SITES; CONTAMINATED SITES; INDICATOR SPECIES; LAKE HARTWELL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PCB CONCENTRATION; POTENTIAL RISKS; RIPARIAN HABITATS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION; SENSITIVE SPECIES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STABLE ISOTOPES; SUPERFUND SITES; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; POLLUTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; CARBON ISOTOPE; FLY; FOOD CHAIN; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PCB; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREY CAPTURE; RIPARIAN ZONE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPIDER; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUPERFUND; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARANEIDAE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HABITAT; INDICATOR ORGANISM; MECYNOGEA LEMNISCATA); NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PREY; SEDIMENT; SPIDER; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TETRAGNATHIDAE; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

HARTWELL LAKE; UNITED STATES;

ARANEAE; ARANEIDAE; AVES; CHIRONOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; MECYNOGEA LEMNISCATA; POECILE; TETRAGNATHIDAE;

EID: 77950937089     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9023139     Document Type: Article

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