Historical contaminants, flame retardants, and halogenated phenolic compounds in peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) nestlings in the Canadian Great Lakes Basin

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3520-3526

  Fernie, Kim J ^a   Letcher, Robert J ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; CONTAMINANT SOURCES; GEOMETRIC MEAN; GREAT LAKES BASIN; HALOGENATED PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANES; LAKE SUPERIOR; PEREGRINE FALCON; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; PPB LEVELS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TECHNICAL MIXTURES; WET WEIGHT;

AIR POLLUTION; BIOMOLECULES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ETHERS; FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT; FLAME RETARDANTS; IMPURITIES; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKES; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PHENOLS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

FLAME RETARDANT; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIET; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; NEST; NESTLING; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PBDE; PCB; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; RAPTOR; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; GEOMETRY; HALOGENATION; LAKE; NESTLING; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FALCONIFORMES; FLAME RETARDANTS; GREAT LAKES REGION; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; PESTICIDES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR;

FALCO PEREGRINUS;

EID: 77951867443     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es100400n     Document Type: Article

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