Temporal patterns and sources of atmospherically deposited pesticides in alpine lakes of the sierra nevada, California, U.S.A.

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4609-4614

  Bradford, David F ^a   Heithmar, Edward M ^a   Tallent Halsell, Nita G ^a   Momplaisir, Georges Marie ^a   Rosal, Charlita G ^a   Varner, Katrina E ^a   Nash, Maliha S ^a   Riddick, Lee A ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES; ALPINE LAKES; AMPHIBIAN SPECIES; ANALYTES; APPLICATION RATES; CALIFORNIA; ENDOSULFANS; FINER-SCALE ANALYSIS; LAG TIME; POPULATION DECLINE; PROPARGITE; SAMPLING PERIOD; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; SIERRA NEVADA; SIERRA NEVADA , CALIFORNIA; SIMAZINE; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FORESTRY; INSECTICIDES; LAKES;

LANDFORMS;

DACTHAL; ENDOSULFAN; PESTICIDE; PROPARGITE; SIMAZINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; AMPHIBIAN; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DACTHAL; ENDOSULFAN; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKE WATER; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POPULATION DECLINE; PROPARGITE; SIMAZINE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); LAKE; NONHUMAN; UNITED STATES; WATER SAMPLING;

ATMOSPHERE; CALIFORNIA; CYCLOHEXANES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOSULFAN; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; PHTHALIC ACIDS; SIMAZINE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 77953504495     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es100758a     Document Type: Article

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