Accumulation features of trace elements in mass-stranded harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in the North Sea coast in 2002: The body distribution and association with growth and nutrition status

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 963-975

  Agusa, Tetsuro ^a,b   Yasugi, Shin ya ^a   Iida, Asami ^a   Ikemoto, Tokutaka ^a   Anan, Yasumi ^a,d   Kuiken, Thijs ^c   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^c   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a   Iwata, Hisato ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d SHOWA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body distribution; Growth dependent accumulation; Harbor seal; Mass mortality; Nutritional status; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

BODY DISTRIBUTIONS; GROWTH-DEPENDENT ACCUMULATION; HARBOR SEALS; MASS MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

BARIUM; LEAD; LIVER; MANGANESE; NUTRITION; RUBIDIUM; SILVER; TIN; TISSUE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

STRONTIUM;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BISMUTH; CADMIUM; CESIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; MOLYBDENUM; RUBIDIUM; SELENIUM; SILVER; STRONTIUM; THALLIUM; TIN; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MASS MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PINNIPED; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GROWTH; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SEAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; EMACIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HAIR; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; NORTH SEA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHOCA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GERMANY; NORTH SEA COAST [GERMANY];

PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA;

EID: 79955606952     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.02.047     Document Type: Article

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