Biomagnification of mercury in trophic relation of Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) and fish in the Vistula Lagoon, Poland

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 176, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 439-449

  Misztal Szkudlińska, Małgorzata ^a   Szefer, Piotr ^a   Konieczka, Piotr ^b   Namieśnik, Jacek ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biomagnifications; CV AAS; Fish; Great Cormorant; Total mercury

Indexed keywords

BIOMAGNIFICATION; BIOMAGNIFICATION FACTORS; BIOMAGNIFICATIONS; CRUCIAN CARP; CV-AAS; FISH SPECIES; GREAT CORMORANT; HG CONCENTRATIONS; TOTAL MERCURIES; TROPHIC RELATIONSHIPS;

FISH; LAKES; LIVER; MUSCLE;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PREY SELECTION; SEABIRD; TROPHIC CONDITIONS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMAGNIFICATION; BIRD; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUCIAN CARP; EUROPEAN SMELT; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; GREAT CORMORANT; HERRING; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LAGOON; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; POLAND; POLLUTION AND POLLUTION RELATED PHENOMENA; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRUSSIAN CARP; ROACH; RUFFE; TENCH; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FISHES; MALE; MERCURY; POLAND;

VISTULA LAGOON;

AVES; CARASSIUS; CLUPEIDAE; CYPRINIDAE; GYMNOCEPHALUS CERNUUS; OSMERUS EPERLANUS; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; TINCA;

EID: 79954862965     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1595-0     Document Type: Article

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