Body condition and mercury concentration in apparently healthy goosander (Mergus merganser) wintering in the Odra estuary, Poland

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1382-1399

  Kalisińska, Elzbieta ^a   Budis, Halina ^a   Podlasińska, Joanna ^a   Łanocha, Natalia ^b   Kavetska, Katarzyna M ^b  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Body and organ size; Body condition; Mercury; Merganser; Poland

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; BODY CONDITION; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; MALE; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ESTUARY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GOOSE; KIDNEY MASS; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MERGUS MERGANSER; MUSCLE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WINTER; AGE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DUCK; KIDNEY; LIVER; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; RIVER; SEX DIFFERENCE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ODER ESTUARY; POLAND;

AVES; MERGUS MERGANSER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DUCKS; FEMALE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MERCURY; ORGAN SIZE; POLAND; RIVERS; SEX FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79952293175     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-010-0524-x     Document Type: Article

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