Spatial trends of dioxin-like compounds in Atlantic anguillid eels

Chemosphere

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1439-1446

  Byer, Jonathan D ^a,b   Alaee, Mehran ^b   Brown, R Stephen ^a   Lebeuf, Michel ^c   Backus, Sean ^b   Keir, Michael ^b   Pacepavicius, Grazina ^b   Casselman, John ^a   Belpaire, Claude ^d   Oliveira, Kenneth ^e   Verreault, Guy ^f   Hodson, Peter V ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^f MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

Author keywords

American eel (Anguilla rostrata); Dioxin like compounds; European eel (Anguilla anguilla); Fish consumption guidelines; Recruitment failure; Toxic equivalence

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; FISH; LAKES; LOCATION; MAMMALS; NAPHTHALENE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AMERICAN EEL (ANGUILLA ROSTRATA); ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; DIOXIN-LIKE COMPOUNDS; FISH CONSUMPTION; TOXIC EQUIVALENCE;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

DIOXIN;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EEL; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GUIDELINE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; NAPHTHALENE; PCB; PCDD; PCDF; POPULATION DECLINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONID; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TOXICITY; URBAN AREA;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANGUILLA ROSTRATA; ARTICLE; CANADA; EEL; EMBRYOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANGUILLA ROSTRATA; ANGUILLIDAE; MAMMALIA; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH;

EID: 84876439617     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.01.062     Document Type: Article

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