Lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, and arsenic levels in eggs, feathers, and tissues of Canada geese of the New Jersey Meadowlands

Environmental Research

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 775-784

  Tsipoura, Nellie ^a   Burger, Joanna ^b,c   Newhouse, Michael ^d   Jeitner, Christian ^b,c   Gochfeld, Michael ^c,e   Mizrahi, David ^a  

^a New Jersey Audubon Society   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d New Jersey Meadowlands Commission   (United States)

^e RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird; Lead; Meadowlands; Mercury; New Jersey

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; LEAD; MERCURY;

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; BREEDING POPULATION; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; EGG; FEATHER; HATCHING; HEALTH RISK; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INGESTION RATE; LEAD; LEAD SHOT; MEADOW; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MUSCLE; NESTLING; PERSISTENCE; SONGBIRD; SURVIVAL; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATERFOWL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FEATHER; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHY; GOOSE; LIVER; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; FEATHERS; GEESE; LEAD; LIVER; MERCURY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEW JERSEY; OVUM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WETLANDS;

HACKENSACK RIVER; MILL CREEK; NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY HARBOR ESTUARY; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

AGELAIUS; AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AVES; BRANTA CANADENSIS; CISTOTHORUS; CISTOTHORUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 79960626116     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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