Assessment of status of white sucker (Catostomus commersoni) populations exposed to bleached kraft pulp mill effluent

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1592-1603

  Miller, David H ^a   Tietge, Joseph E ^a   Mcmaster, Mark E ^b   Munkittrick, Kelly R ^c   Xia, Xiangsheng ^d   Ankley, Gerald T ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d Computer Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Population model; Pulp mill effluent; White sucker

Indexed keywords

BLEACHED KRAFT PULPS; BREEDING POPULATIONS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; POPULATION GROWTH RATES; POPULATION MODEL; PULP MILL EFFLUENT; WHITE SUCKER;

KRAFT PULP; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PAPER AND PULP MILLS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AGE STRUCTURE; BREEDING POPULATION; CARRYING CAPACITY; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EFFLUENT; FECUNDITY; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIFE TABLE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RISK ASSESSMENT; STEROID; TELEOST;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; BREEDING; CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI; EFFLUENT; FERTILITY; FISH; LIFE TABLE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION REGULATION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULP MILL;

ANIMALS; CANADA; CYPRINIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MALE; PAPER; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WOOD;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; EFFLUENTS; KRAFT PULPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PULP MILLS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; JACKFISH BAY; LAKE SUPERIOR; ONTARIO [CANADA];

CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI;

EID: 84878733480     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2218     Document Type: Article

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