Response of white sucker (Catostomus commersoni) to pulp and paper mill effluent in the Androscoggin River, Maine, USA

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 142-153

  Mower, Barry F ^a,b   Munkittrick, Kelly R ^c   McMaster, Mark E ^d   Van Beneden, Rebecca J ^b  

^a Maine Department of Environmental Protection   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Eutrophication; Fish reproduction; Metabolic disruption; Pulp mill effluents

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; BLEACHED KRAFT PULPS; ELEMENTAL CHLORINE-FREE BLEACHING; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; FISH POPULATIONS; METABOLIC DISRUPTION; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; POPULATION ESTIMATE; PROCESS CHANGE; PULP AND PAPER MILL EFFLUENTS; PULP MILL EFFLUENTS; REPRODUCTIVE EFFECTS; SECONDARY EFFLUENT; SECONDARY TREATMENT; TREATMENT PLANTS; WHITE SUCKER;

BLEACHING; CHLORINE; CLEANING; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; EUTROPHICATION; FISH; FISHERIES; KRAFT PROCESS; KRAFT PULP; METABOLISM; PAPERMAKING MACHINERY; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

PAPER AND PULP MILLS;

ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

BIOMASS; BLEACHING; CYPRINID; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; EUTROPHICATION; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DENSITY; PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI; EFFLUENT; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; EUTROPHICATION; FEMALE; FISH; GONAD; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONHUMAN; PAPER INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULP MILL; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BLEACHING AGENTS; CYPRINIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADS; GREEN CHEMISTRY TECHNOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MAINE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PAPER; RIVERS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WOOD;

BLEACHING; CHLORINE; CLEANING; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE; EUTROPHICATION; FISHES; METABOLISM; PAPER MAKING EQUIPMENT; PAPER MILLS; PULP MILLS; REPRODUCTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

ANDROSCOGGIN RIVER; MAINE; UNITED STATES;

CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI;

EID: 78650476807     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.364     Document Type: Article

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