Increasing cadmium and zinc levels in wild common eiders breeding along canada's remote northern coastline

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 476-477, Issue , 2014, Pages 73-78

  Mallory, Mark L ^a   Braune, Birgit M ^b   Robertson, Gregory J ^c   Gilchrist, H Grant ^b   Mallory, Conor D ^d   Forbes, Mark R ^b   Wells, Regina ^c  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Common eider; Somateria mollissima; Zinc

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

CADMIUMS (CD); CANADIAN ARCTIC; COMMON EIDER; SEA DUCK; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; TIME-PERIODS;

ZINC;

CADMIUM; ZINC;

BREEDING; CADMIUM; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); WATERFOWL; ZINC;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DUCK; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; LIVER LEVEL; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

CANADA;

CADMIUM; COMMON EIDER; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; ZINC;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CADMIUM; CANADA; DUCKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; LIVER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

EID: 84892930782     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.12.102     Document Type: Article

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