Selenium accumulation in sea ducks wintering at Lake Ontario

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 854-862

  Schummer, Michael L ^a,b   Badzinski, Shannon S ^a   Petrie, Scott A ^a   Chen, Yu Wei ^c   Belzile, Nelson ^c  

^a Long Point Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Fund   (Canada)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); OVERWINTERING; SELENIUM; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BUCEPHALA ALBEOLA; BUCEPHALA CLANGULA; CANADA; CLANGULA HYEMALIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; DUCK; HEALTH HAZARD; LIVER LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; DUCKS; SELENIUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; AYTHYA; BUCEPHALA ALBEOLA; BUCEPHALA CLANGULA; CLANGULA HYEMALIS; DREISSENA BUGENSIS; DREISSENIDAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952098669     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-009-9370-3     Document Type: Article

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