Organochlorine concentrations (PCBs, DDTs, HCHs, HCB and MIREX) in delphinids stranded at the northeastern Brazil

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 472, Issue , 2014, Pages 194-203

  Santos Neto, Elitieri B ^a,b   Azevedo Silva, Claudio Eduardo ^a   Bisi, Tatiana L ^a   Santos, Jessica ^a   Meirelles, Ana Carolina O ^c   Carvalho, Vitor L ^c   Azevedo, Alexandre F ^a   Guimarães, José Eugênio ^b   Lailson Brito, José ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c Aquasis Associacao de Pesquisa e Preservacao de Ecossistemas Aquaticos   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Cetaceans; Discriminant analysis; Guiana dolphin; Organochlorines

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; INSECTICIDES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

BIOACCUMULATION PATTERNS; CETACEANS; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS; GUIANA DOLPHINS; NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANOCHLORINES; SUBCUTANEOUS ADIPOSE TISSUES;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; MIREX; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DOLPHIN; HCH; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; METABOLITE; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BRAZIL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DOLPHIN; FEMALE; LAGENODELPHIS HOSEI; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOTALIA GUIANENSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STENELLA COERULEOALBA; STENELLA FRONTALIS; STENELLA LONGIROSTRIS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

BRAZIL;

CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; LAGENODELPHIS HOSEI; SOTALIA GUIANENSIS; STENELLA (CETACEA); STENELLA COERULEOALBA; STENELLA FRONTALIS; STENELLA LONGIROSTRIS;

BIOACCUMULATION; CETACEANS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GUIANA DOLPHIN; ORGANOCHLORINES;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DDT; DOLPHINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LINDANE; MALE; MIREX; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84888410265     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.117     Document Type: Article

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