Decomposition odour profiling in the air and soil surrounding vertebrate carrion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Forbes, Shari L ^a   Perrault, Katelynn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; AIR POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CARCASS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; SOIL ANALYSIS; SWINE; WATER ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CADAVER; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORENSIC SCIENCE; PIG; SOIL POLLUTANT; AIR; AUTOLYSIS; DOMESTIC PIG; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; SOIL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; CADAVER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORENSIC SCIENCES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; ODORS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SWINE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84899703400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095107.g001     Document Type: Article

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