Assessment of the effects of urbanization on trace elements of toe bones

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5749-5754

  Simon, Edina ^a   Puky, Miklós ^b   Braun, Mihály ^a   Tóthmérész, Béla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Bufo bufo; Calcium; ICP OES; Phosphorus; Ponds

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; BUFO BUFO; CANONICAL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; ELEMENTAL CONTENTS; ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY; ICP-OES; PONDS; SMALL SAMPLES; URBANIZED AREA;

BIOMARKERS; BONE; CALCIUM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORUS; ZINC;

LAKES;

BORON; CALCIUM; MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHATE; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOINDICATOR; CALCIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FROG; PHOSPHORUS; POND; TOAD; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DRY WEIGHT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; TOE PHALANX; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALS; BUFO BUFO; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; TOE PHALANGES; TRACE ELEMENTS; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO BUFO;

EID: 84865311490     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2378-y     Document Type: Article

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