Dietary- and tissue-based exposure of belted kingfisher to PCDFs and PCDDs in the Tittabawassee River floodplain, Midland, MI, USA

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1158-1168

  Seston, Rita M ^a   Giesy, John P ^a,b,c   Fredricks, Timothy B ^a   Tazelaar, Dustin L ^a   Coefield, Sarah J ^a   Bradley, Patrick W ^a   Roark, Shaun A ^d   Newsted, John L ^a,d   Kay, Denise P ^d   Zwiernik, Matthew J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d CARDNO ENTRIX   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian diet; Bioaccumulation; Bird; Dioxins and furans; Egg; Feeding; Monitoring food; PCB

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIRDS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; FEEDING; FLOODS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEDIMENTS;

2 ,3 ,7 ,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN EQUIVALENTS; AVIAN DIETS; BIOMAGNIFICATION FACTORS; DIOXIN-LIKE COMPOUNDS; DIOXINS AND FURANS; MONITORING FOODS; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO P DIOXIN (PCDDS); POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURANS;

RIVERS;

POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; RIVER WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; BIRD; DIET; EGG; FLOODPLAIN; NESTLING; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; DIETARY INTAKE; EGG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

MICHIGAN; MIDLAND; SAGINAW RIVER; TITTABAWASSEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 84859879102     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.1780     Document Type: Article

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