Metabolic concentration of lipid soluble organochlorine burdens in the blubber of southern hemisphere humpback whales through migration and fasting

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 9404-9413

  Bengtson Nash, Susan M ^a   Waugh, Courtney A ^b   Schlabach, Martin ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BIOMAGNIFICATION FACTORS; CONCENTRATION EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY; FOOD DEPRIVATIONS; HUMPBACK WHALES; ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUNDS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE;

ADAPTATION; BIOACCUMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FASTING; HERBIVORE; LIPID; METABOLISM; MIGRATION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PROTEIN; WHALE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOTA; DIET RESTRICTION; ENERGY; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; FEEDING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HUMPBACK WHALE; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID SOLUBILITY; MALE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TOXICOKINETICS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FASTING; FOOD CHAIN; HUMPBACK WHALE; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84882575187     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es401441n     Document Type: Article

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