Effects of oil on terrestrial vertebrates: Predicting impacts of the macondo blowout

BioScience

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 820-828

  Burns, Christine M Bergeon ^a   Olin, Jill A ^a   Stouffer, Philip C ^a   Taylor, Sabrina S ^a   Woltmann, Stefan ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal ecosystem; Oil well blowout; Salt marsh; Toxicology; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910669998     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu124     Document Type: Article

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