Thirty-Year Time Series of PCB Concentrations in a Small Invertivorous Fish (Notropis Hudsonius): An Examination of Post-1990 Trajectory Shifts in the Lower Great Lakes

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 415-429

  French, Todd D ^a   Petro, Steve ^b   Reiner, Eric J ^b   Bhavsar, Satyendra P ^b   Jackson, Donald A ^a,c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change; Dreissena; dreissenids; environmental change; Great Lakes; invasive species; Lake Erie; Lake Ontario; Lake St. Clair; Niagara River; Notropis hudsonius; polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYPRINID; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PCB; TIME SERIES; TRAJECTORY; WARMING; WATER COLUMN;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; NIAGARA RIVER;

DREISSENA; DREISSENIDAE; NOTROPIS HUDSONIUS;

EID: 79953204357     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9419-9     Document Type: Article

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