PBDEs in serum and blubber of harbor, grey and harp seal pups from Eastern Canada

Chemosphere

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 663-669

  Frouin, Héloïse ^a,b   Lebeuf, Michel ^b   Hammill, Mike ^b   Sjare, Becky ^c   Fournier, Michel ^a  

^a INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gulf of St. Lawrence; PBDEs; Pinnipeds; Pups; St. Lawrence Estuary

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTUARIES;

GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE; LAWRENCE ESTUARIES; PBDES; PINNIPEDS; PUPS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

LIPID; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

BIOMONITORING; COLONY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIET; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; LIPID; PBDE; PINNIPED; SERUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOCA; SEAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE;

HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; PHOCA; PHOCA GROENLANDICA; PHOCA VITULINA; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 78650757378     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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