Organochlorine pesticide residue concentrations and accumulation patterns in waterbirds and in their prey at Lake Kerkini, a Ramsar wetland, Greece

Journal of Biological Research

Volumn 17, Issue , 2012, Pages 154-168

  Goutner, Vassilis ^a   Frigis, Konstantinos ^a   Konstantinou, Ioannis K ^b   Sakellarides, Theophanes M ^b   Albanis, Triantafyllos A ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Greece; Lake Kerkini; Prey; Waterbirds

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ARDEA CINEREA; AVES; CARASSIUS AURATUS; EGRETTA GARZETTA; LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS; NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX; PHALACROCORAX CARBO;

EID: 84858011480     PISSN: 1790045X     EISSN: 1790045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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