Fluctuations in natural and synthetic estrogen concentrations in a tidal estuary in south-eastern Australia

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1604-1615

  Ferguson, Emma M ^a   Allinson, Mayumi ^a   Allinson, Graeme ^a,b   Swearer, Stephen E ^a   Hassell, Kathryn L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

17 Ethinylestradiol; Endocrine disruption; Little River; Port Phillip Bay; Ramsar; WWTP effluent

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENTS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; ESTUARIES; FLOODS; MARINE POLLUTION; PH; TIDES; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; PORT PHILLIP BAY; RAMSAR; WWTP EFFLUENT;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FRESH WATER;

ALCOHOL; BOTTOM WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; FRESHWATER; PH; RAMSAR CONVENTION; SALINITY; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTUARY; FLOODING; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RIVER; SALINITY; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AUSTRALIA; LITTLE RIVER [VICTORIA]; PORT PHILLIP BAY; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84873524171     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.12.020     Document Type: Article

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