Twenty years of elemental analysis of marine biota within the German Environmental Specimen Bank-a thorough look at the data

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1025-1034

  Rüdel, Heinz ^a   Fliedner, Annette ^a   Kösters, Jan ^a   Schröter Kermani, Christa ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Cadmium; Environmental Specimen Bank; Lead; Mercury; North Sea

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CADMIUM; CRUSTACEAN; LEAD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MICROWAVE RADIATION; SPECIMEN BANK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC STATES; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; BIVALVE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUCUS; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HISTORY; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PERCIFORMES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; BALTIC STATES; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; BIVALVIA; CADMIUM; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUCUS; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; LEAD; MARINE BIOLOGY; MERCURY; METALS, HEAVY; NORTH SEA; OVUM; PERCIFORMES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GERMANY; NORTH SEA; SAXONY;

CLUPEIDAE; FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; LARUS ARGENTATUS; MYTILUS EDULIS; ZOARCES VIVIPARUS; ZOARCIDAE;

EID: 77952675023     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-009-0280-8     Document Type: Article

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