Organochlorines and mercury in livers of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) wintering in northeastern Mediterranean wetlands in relation to area, bird age, and gender

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 710-718

  Goutner, V ^a   Becker, P H ^b   Liordos, V ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

Great cormorant; Greek wetlands; Mercury; Organochlorines; Pollution patterns

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BLACK SEA; CHLORINE ATOM; GEOMETRIC MEAN; GREAT CORMORANT; GREEK WETLANDS; LOCAL PATTERNS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; ORGANOCHLORINES; POLLUTANT LEVELS; POLLUTED AREA; TOXIC EFFECT; TOXIC SUBSTANCES; WILD BIRDS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CHLORINE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MERCURY (METAL); POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TOXIC MATERIALS; WETLANDS;

POLLUTION;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; MERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDD; DDE; DDT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOXICITY; WETLAND;

AGE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BIRD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GREECE; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER TOXICITY; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WATER POLLUTION; WETLAND; WILD ANIMAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LIVER; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MERCURY; PESTICIDES; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

GREECE;

AVES; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHALACROCORAX CARBO SINENSIS;

EID: 78650980116     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.10.043     Document Type: Article

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