Assessment of organochlorine pesticide contamination in waterbirds from an agricultural region, Central China

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 175-187

  Hu, Ying ^a,b   Qi, Shihua ^a   Yuan, Linxi ^c   Liu, Hongxia ^d   Xing, Xinli ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d HUBEI POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Jianghan Plain; Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs); Risk assessment; Waterbird

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIETARY INTAKE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHINA; HUBEI; JIANGHAN PLAIN;

ANAS; ARDEIDAE; ARDEOLA BACCHUS; EGRETTA GARZETTA;

CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE;

AGE; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BIRD; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DIETARY EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHINA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; DIETARY EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MALE; MUSCLES; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84992313451     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: 15732983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-016-9891-4     Document Type: Article

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