A modeling assessment of contaminant fate in the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario: Part 2. Organic chemicals

Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 137-150

  Gandhi, Nilima ^a   Diamond, Miriam L ^a   Razavi, Roshanak ^a   Bhavsar, Satyendra P ^a,b   Hodge, Erin M ^a,c   Gewurtz, Sarah B ^a,d   Arhonditsis, George B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d Environmental Monitoring and Reporting Branch Ontario Ministry of the Environment ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

chlorinated organic contaminants; fate and transport; fish foodweb; Laurentian Great Lakes; long term trend; polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901474645     PISSN: 14634988     EISSN: 15394077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14634988.2014.910442     Document Type: Article

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