Mercury and chlorinated pesticides on the highest level of the food web as exemplified by herring from the southern baltic and african penguins from the zoo

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 224, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Falkowska, Lucyna ^a   Reindl, Andrzej R ^a   Szumiło, Emilia ^a   Kwaśniak, Justyna ^a   Staniszewska, Marta ^a   Bełdowska, Magdalena ^a   Lewandowska, Anita ^a   Krause, Izabela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b Municipal Zoological Garden   (Poland)

Author keywords

Clupea harengus; Mercury; Persistent organic pollutants; Southern Baltic; Spheniscus demersus

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIRDS; INSECTICIDES; ISOMERS; MERCURY (METAL); METABOLITES; MUSCLE; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BIOACCUMULATION FACTOR; CLUPEA HARENGUS; DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); SOUTHERN BALTIC; SPHENISCUS DEMERSUS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

ALDRIN; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIELDRIN; ENDOSULFAN; ENDOSULFAN SULFATE; ENDRIN; ISODRIN; MERCURY; METHOXYCHLOR; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOACCUMULATION; CHLORINATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDT; FOOD WEB; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; SEABIRD; XENOBIOTICS; ZOO;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FOOD WEB; HERRING; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

AVES; CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; SPHENISCIDAE; SPHENISCUS DEMERSUS;

EID: 84876194084     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-013-1549-6     Document Type: Article

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