Heavy-metal concentrations in soft tissues of the burrowing crab Neohelice granulata in Bahía Blanca Estuary, Argentina

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 243-253

  Simonetti, Pía ^a   Botté, Sandra Elizabeth ^a,b   Fiori, Sandra Marcela ^a,b   Marcovecchio, Jorge Eduardo ^a,c,d  

^a CCT CONICET ^*  (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA NACIONAL   (Argentina)

^d Universidad FASTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRAB; EGG; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FOOD WEB; HATCHING; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRAB; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BRACHYURA; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MALE; OVUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARGENTINA; BAHIA BLANCA ESTUARY; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA];

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 84856969940     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: 14320703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-011-9692-9     Document Type: Article

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