Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) dietary exposure to PCDD/DF in the Tittabawassee River floodplain in Midland, Michigan, USA

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2350-2362

  Coefield, Sarah J ^a   Zwiernik, Matthew J ^a   Fredricks, Timothy B ^a   Seston, Rita M ^a   Nadeau, Michael W ^a   Tazelaar, Dustin L ^a   Moore, Jeremy N ^e   Kay, Denise P ^f   Roark, Shaun A ^f   Giesy, John P ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f ENTRIX   (United States)

Author keywords

Dioxin; Equivalents; Furan; Raptor; Risk

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIRDS; FLOODS; HAZARDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; RISKS; SEDIMENTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BIOACCUMULATIVE COMPOUNDS; DIOXIN; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; EQUIVALENTS; FURAN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURANS; RAPTOR;

RIVERS;

POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIET; FLOODPLAIN; LAGOMORPH; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RAPTOR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BUBO VIRGINIANUS; DIET; FLOODPLAIN; HAZARD RATIO; MUSKRAT; NONHUMAN; OWL; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

MICHIGAN; TITTABAWASSEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

AVES; BUBO VIRGINIANUS; ONDATRA; ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; SYLVILAGUS FLORIDANUS;

EID: 78649485728     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.291     Document Type: Article

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