Decade-long monitoring reveals a transient distortion of baseline butyltin bioaccumulation pattern in gastropods

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 931-934

  Ruiz, J M ^a   Diaz J ^b   Albaina, N ^a   Couceiro, L ^a   Irabien, A ^b   Barreiro, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Butyltin; Gastropods; Nassarius reticulatus; Nucella lapillus; TBT

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION OF; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; NASSARIUS RETICULATUS; NATURAL PHENOMENA; NUCELLA LAPILLUS; NW SPAIN; STUDY AREAS; TRIBUTYLTIN;

ANTIFOULING PAINT; BIOCHEMISTRY; DESORPTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FOULING;

BIOACCUMULATION;

BUTYLTIN; DIBUTYLTIN; MONOBUTYLTIN; TETRAMETHYLAMMONIUM HYDROXIDE; TRIBUTYLTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DI-N-BUTYLTIN; MONO-N-BUTYLTIN; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; POLLUTANT;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESORPTION; GASTROPOD; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; TRIBUTYLTIN;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOTA; COASTAL WATERS; DESORPTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; NASSARIUS RETICULATUS; NONHUMAN; NUCELLA LAPILLUS; SEDIMENT; SNAIL; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; GASTROPOD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLISM; PHARMACOKINETICS; POLLUTANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GASTROPODA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRIALKYLTIN COMPOUNDS;

SPAIN;

GASTROPODA; NASSARIUS RETICULATUS; NUCELLA LAPILLUS;

EID: 77953613488     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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