Contrasting Food Web Factor and Body Size Relationships with Hg and Se Concentrations in Marine Biota

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Karimi, Roxanne ^a   Frisk, Michael ^a   Fisher, Nicholas S ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOTA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEEDING; FISH; FOOD WEB; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE BIOTA; NONHUMAN; SHARK; SHELLFISH; TAXONOMY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FOOD CHAIN; MARINE BIOLOGY; MERCURY; SELENIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84883347102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074695     Document Type: Article

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