Dietary exposure of three passerine species to PCDD/DFs from the Chippewa, Tittabawassee, and Saginaw River floodplains, Midland, Michigan, USA

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 172, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 91-112

  Fredricks, Timothy B ^a,b   Giesy, John P ^a,c,d,e,f   Coefield, Sarah J ^a   Seston, Rita M ^a   Haswell, Melissa M ^g   Tazelaar, Dustin L ^a   Bradley, Patrick W ^a   Moore, Jeremy N ^a   Roark, Shaun A ^h   Zwiernik, Matthew J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYER CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g MI   (United States)

^h ENTRIX INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Bolus; Dioxins; Furans; Invertebrates; TEQs

Indexed keywords

BOLUS; DIOXINS; FURANS; INVERTEBRATES; TEQS;

ANIMALS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLLUTION DETECTION; RIVERS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

RIVER POLLUTION;

1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 OCTACHLORODIBENZO 4 DIOXIN; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZOFURAN; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DIETARY SHIFT; DIOXIN; INVERTEBRATE; NESTLING; PASSERINE; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; BRACHYCERA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD WEB; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; SIALIA SIALIS; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR; TROGLODYTES AEDON; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MICHIGAN; SONGBIRDS; SWALLOWS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHIPPEWA RIVER; MICHIGAN; MIDLAND; SAGINAW RIVER; TITTABAWASSEE RIVER; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

AVES; BRACHYCERA; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PASSERIFORMES; SIALIA SIALIS; TACHYCINETA; TACHYCINETA BICOLOR; TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES AEDON;

EID: 79151468731     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1319-5     Document Type: Article

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