Effects of egg order on organic and inorganic element concentrations and egg characteristics in tree swallows, tachycineta bicolor

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 909-921

  Custer, Christine M ^a   Gray, Brian R ^a   Custer, Thomas W ^a  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg order; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Tachycineta bicolor; Trace elements; Tree swallows

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; CHROMIUM; CLUTCHES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; IMPURITIES; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

CONTAMINATED ENVIRONMENT; EGG ORDER; INORGANIC ELEMENTS; LIPID CONTENT; MASSACHUSETTS , USA; MOISTURE CONTENTS; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR; TREE SWALLOW;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CHROMIUM; INORGANIC COMPOUND; LIPID; MANGANESE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC; 1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; EGG; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PASSERINE; PCB; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLUTCH SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EGG SIZE; MOISTURE; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR; TREE SWALLOW; UNITED STATES; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EGG; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SWALLOW (BIRD); WATER POLLUTANT;

HOUSATONIC RIVER; UNITED STATES;

TACHYCINETA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

ANIMALS; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; EGGS; FEMALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RIVERS; SWALLOWS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77951027447     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.88     Document Type: Article

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