Erratum: Mercury concentrations in tidal marsh sparrows and their use as bioindicators in Delaware Bay, USA (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1312-z);Mercury concentrations in tidal marsh sparrows and their use as bioindicators in Delaware Bay, USA

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 171, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 671-679

  Warner, Sarah E ^a   Shriver, W Gregory ^a   Pepper, Margaret A ^a   Taylor, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammodramus; Bioindicators; Delaware Bay; Mercury; Tidal Marsh

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; HEALTH HAZARDS; WATERSHEDS; WETLANDS;

AMMODRAMUS; BIOINDICATOR SPECIES; DELAWARE BAY; INDUSTRIAL SOURCES; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TIDAL MARSHES; US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); PASSERINE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SALTMARSH; WATERSHED;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; MALE; MARSH; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; RIVER; SAMPLE SIZE; SPARROW; UNITED STATES; WATERSHED;

DELAWARE BAY; UNITED STATES;

AMMODRAMUS; AMMODRAMUS CAUDACUTUS; AMMODRAMUS MARITIMUS; AVES; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 78149408170     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1498-0     Document Type: Erratum

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