Long-term trends in PBDEs in sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) eggs indicate sustained contamination of UK terrestrial ecosystems

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 13504-13511

  Crosse, John D ^a,b   Shore, Richard F ^a   Wadsworth, Richard A ^a   Jones, Kevin C ^b   Pereira, M Glória ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; DEBROMINATION; HUMAN POPULATION; LONG-TERM TREND; ROBUST DATUM; SPATIAL TRENDS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TERRESTRIAL BIOTA; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN LAND COVER; WET WEIGHT;

CONTAMINATION; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS; URBAN GROWTH;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

ARABLE LAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EGG; EGGSHELL; LAND COVER; NEST SITE; PBDE; PISCIVORE; POPULATION DENSITY; RAPTOR; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ACCIPITER NISUS; ARTICLE; BIRD; CALIBRATION; CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEM; EGG; NONHUMAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FALCONIFORMES; GREAT BRITAIN; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; OVUM; TIME FACTORS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIPITER NISUS; AVES;

EID: 84871324652     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303550f     Document Type: Article

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