Contaminant Studies

 
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1950s-1960s      Contaminant Studies
  • Spectrum of cross-resistance to insecticides in the mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis

  • Susceptibility and resistance of mosquitofish to several insecticides

  • Possible DDT resistance in two species of frogs

  • Resistance to DDT in the mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis

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1970s       Contaminant Studies
  • A simple technique for detecting effects of toxicants or other stresses on a predator-prey interaction

  • Vascular aquatic plants for mineral nutrient removal from polluted waters

  • Growth and elemental composition of corn and bean seedlings as influenced by soil application of coal ash

  • Utilization of coal ash by crops under greenhouse conditions

  • Trace metal concentrations in a stream-swamp system receiving coal ash effluent

  • Studies of the biogeochemistry of boron: Concentrations in surface waters, rainfall and aquatic plants

  • Boron accumulation by native algae

  • Frequency distributions of trace metal concentrations in five freshwater fishes

  • Metals associated with organic carbon extracted from Okefenokee swamp water

  • Trace metal transport by particulates and organic carbon in two South Carolina streams

  • Patterns of mercury contamination in a wintering waterfowl community

  • NTA and mercury in artificial stream systems

  • Fate and biological effects of mercury introduced into artificial streams

  • Behavioral alterations in a simple predator-prey system due to sublethal exposure to mercury

  • Reductions in biomass and diversity resulting from exposure to mercury in artificial streams

  • Determination of lead and cadmium associated with naturally occurring organics extracted from surface waters, using flameless atomic absorption

  • Effects of naturally occurring aquatic organic fractions on cadmium toxicity to Simocephalus serrulatus (Daphnidae) and Gambusia affinis (Poeciliidae)

  • Cadmium inhibition of leaf decomposition in an aquatic microcosm

  • Cadmium dynamics in terrestrial food webs of a coal ash basin

  • Relative importance of food and water sources to cadmium uptake by Gambusia affinis (Poeciliidae)

  • Aerial inputs of cadmium, copper, lead, and manganese into a freshwater pond in the vicinity of a coal-fired power plant

  • Effects of chronic cadmium exposure on crayfish survival, growth, tolerance to elevated temperatures

  • Concentrations of Cd, Cu, Mn, Pb, and Zn in fishes in a highly organic softwater pond

  • Effects of organic insecticides upon carbon-14 uptake by freshwater phytoplankton

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1980s       Contaminant Studies

Distribution, Characteristics, Mechanisms, Measurement:

  • Sources, essentiality and biogeochemical cycling of trace elements

  • Heavy metal speciation in coastal plains watershed of the southeastern United States: Temporal and spatial variation

  • An evaluation of chemical speciation in the MEXAMS metal transport model

  • Utilization and disposal of fly ash and other coal residues in terrestrial ecosystems: a review

  • The bioavailability of soil-added thallium and beryllium

  • Humic acids reduce bioaccumulation of some polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

  • Conditional stability constants of trace metals and naturally occurring humic materials: application in equilibrium models and verification with field data

  • Fate and behavior of an organo-borate in the soil-plant system

  • Fate of anthracene in an artificial stream: a case study

  • Trace element inputs from a coal burning power plant to adjacent terrestrial and aquatic environments

  • A non-equilibrium approach to modeling toxic metal speciation in acid, aquatic systems

  • Extraction efficiency of anthracene from sediments

  • The effect of pH and contact time on the concentration of As (III) and As (V) in coal ash systems

  • Seasonal variations of trace elements in dissolved and suspended loads for coal ash ponds and pond effluents

  • Sources of trace element enrichment in soils

  • Bromine, chlorine and fluorine. Methods of Soil Analysis, Part 2 - Chemical and Microbiological Properties

  • Dynamics of aluminum complexation in multiple ligand systems

  • Competitive sorption of zinc and cadmium on goethite

  • The distribution of lithium in selected soils and surface waters of the southeastern USA

  • Relative mobilization of zinc, cerium, and americium from sediment in an aquatic microcosm

  • Exchange and apparent fixation of lithium in selected soils and clay minerals

  • Conditions for Al13 polymer formation in partially neutralized aluminum solutions

  • Aluminum speciation: methodology and applications

  • Aqueous polynuclear aluminum species. The Environmental Chemistry of Aluminum

  • Determination of aluminum extracted from soils by ion chromatography

  • Speciation of aluminum in aqueous solutions using ion chromatography

  • Aluminum-27 nuclear magnetic resonance studies of ferron-hydroxo-polynuclear Al interactions

  • Quantitative determination of aluminum-27 by high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry

  • Speciation of hydroxy-aluminum solutions by wet chemical and aluminum-27 NMR methods

  • Coprecipitation of iron and aluminum during titration of mixed Al3+, Fe3+ solutions

  • Chemical equilibria of selenium in soils: a theoretical development

  • Solubility, speciation, and transformations of selenium in soils

  • Application of risk and uncertainty analysis techniques to a heavy metal speciation model

  • A non-equilibrium approach to modeling metal speciation in acid, aquatic systems: theory and process equations

  • Cadmium interactions with naturally occurring organic ligands

  • Trace metal speciation: the interaction of metals with organic constituents of surface waters

  • Fates of cadmium introduced into channels microcosm

  • Surface-faciliated chemical degradation of tetraphenylboron in soil

  • Preconcentration and analysis of tetraphenylboron and diphenylborinic acid in natural waters using C18 reverse-phase liquid chromatography

  • Mobilization kinetics of Fe and Mn from sediments as influenced by redox status. Heavy Metals in the Environment

Contaminants in plants:

  • Patterns of vegetation response to heavy metal stress

  • Factors affecting vanadium phytotoxicity

  • Land application studies of industrial waste oils

  • Microcosmology: introductory comments. Microcosms in Ecological Research

  • Design and assessment of a chamber to expose plants to simulated aerosol and rain

  • Large-scale microcosms for assessing fates and effects of trace contaminants

  • The disposition of benzo(a)pyrene in the periphyton communities of two South Carolina streams: uptake and biotransformation

  • Geochemical factors complicating the use of Aufwuchs to monitor bioaccumulation of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper and zinc

  • Appropriateness of Aufwucs as a monitor of bioaccumulation

  • Phytoavailability of boron from organic sources

  • Long-term phytoavailability of soil-applied organo-borates

  • The chronic exposure of selected crop species to boron aerosols

  • Response of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) seedlings to soil-applied organo-borates

  • Effects of simulated acid precipitation on cadmium- and zinc-amended soil and soil-pine systems

  • Understory response to sewage sludge fertilization of loblolly pine plantations

  • Growth response of loblolly pine to municipal and industrial sewage sludge applied at four ages on upper coastal plain sites

  • Response of loblolly pine to sewage sludge application: water relations

  • Response of loblolly pine plantations to two sources of sewage sludge

  • Cadmium availability to sudangrass grown on soils amended with sewage sludge and fly ash

  • Effects of selenium on germination and radicle elongation of selected agronomic species

  • Co-recycling of sewage sludge and fly ash: heavy metal uptake by crop

  • Co-recycling of sewage sludge and fly ash: cadmium accumulation by crop

  • Comparative uptake and translocation of trace elements from coal ash by Typha latifolia

Contaminants in invertebrates:

  • Disposition of benzo(a)pyrene in aquatic systems components: periphyton, chironomics, daphnia, fish

  • Anthracene bioconcentration and biotransformation in chironomids: effects of temperature and concentration

  • Kinetics and biotransformation of benzo(a)pyrene in Chironamus riparius

  • Lead elimination and size effects on accumulation by two freshwater gastropods

  • Slow accumulation of lead from contaminated food sources by the freshwater gastropods, Physa integra and Campeloma decisum

  • Cadmium and zinc accumulation and elimination by freshwater crayfish

  • The effects of low concentrations of particulates from paper mill effluent on the macroinvertebrate community of a fast-flowing stream

Contaminants in fish:

  • Biochemical analysis of allozyme cooper and cadmium tolerance in fish using starch gel electrophoresis

  • Method for detecting trace-element contamination of fish samples from handling

  • Acute mortality of anthracene-contaminated fish exposed to sunlight

  • Allozyme genotype and time to death of mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, during acute exposure to inorganic mercury

  • Allozyme genotype and time to death of mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis during acute toxicant exposure: a comparison of arsenate and inorganic mercury

  • Size dependence of zinc elimination and uptake from water by mosquitofish Gambusia affinis

  • Size-dependence of mercury (II) accumulation kinetics in the mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis

  • Sewage effluent biomonitoring.  I. Survival, growth, and histopathological effects in channel catfish

  • Sewage effluent biomonitoring.  II. Biochemical indicators of ammonia exposure in channel catfish

Contaminants in birds:

  • Mallard egg quality: enhancement by low levels of petroleum and chlorinated hydrocarbons

  • Sigmoid growth analyses of wood ducks: the effects of sex, dietary protein and cadmium on parameters of the Richards model

  • PCB intake and the growth of waterfowl: multivariate analyses based on a reparameterized Richards sigmoid model

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1990s       Contaminant Studies

Distribution, Characteristics, Mechanisms, Measurement:

  • Assessment of genetic damage as a biomarker in the remediation of contaminated or polluted sites
  • Soil contamination, risk reduction and remediation. Land Contamination & Reclamation
  • Wetland restoration for habitat reconstruction and contaminant stabilization
  • Factors in exposure assessment: Ethnic and socioeconomic differences in fishing and consumption of fish caught along the Savannah River
  • Risk perception, federal spending, and the Savannah River Site: attitudes of hunters and fishermen
  • Gender differences in recreational use, environmental attitudes, and perceptions of future land use at the Savannah River Site
  • Attitudes and perceptions about ecological resources and hazards of people living around the Savannah River Site
  • Scientific method in environmental toxicology
  • Characterization of complex mineral assemblages: Implications for contaminant transport and environmental remediation
  • Overview of synchrotron X-ray sources and synchrotron X-rays. Synchrotron X-ray Methods in Clay Science
  • Elucidating fundamental mechanisms in soil and environmental chemistry: the role of advanced analytical, spectroscopic, and microsopic methods
  • Molecular characterization of contaminants in soils by spatially resolved XRF & XANES spectroscopy
  • Nickel desorption kinetics from hydrous ferric oxide in the presence of EDTA
  • Transport of anthropogenic uranium from sediments to surface waters during episodic storm events
  • Factors influencing uranium reduction and solubility in evaporation pond sediments
  • Mineral associations and average oxidation states of sorbed Pu on tuff
  • Comparison of acid and base leach for the removal of uranium from contaminated soil and catch-box media
  • In situ examination of uranium contaminated soil particles by micro-X-ray absorption and micro-fluorescence spectroscopies
  • Micro-XAS studies with sorbed plutonium on tuff
  • In situ chemical speciation of uranium in soils and sediments by micro x-ray absorption spectroscopy
  • Fourier transform raman spectroscopy of sorbed HDTMA and the mechanism of chromate sorption to surfactant-modified clinoptilolite
  • Aluminum. Methods of Soil Analysis
  • The hydrolytic products of aluminum and their biological significance
  • Methods for the determination of PAH desorption kinetics in coal fines and coal contaminated sediments
  • Kinetics and mechanisms of kaolinite dissolution: effects of organic ligands
  • Mimicked in-situ stabilization of metals in a cropped soil: Bioavailability and chemical form of zinc
  • Distinguishing between surface and bulk dehydration-dehydroxylation reactions in synthetic goethites by high-resolution thermogravimetric analysis
  • Changes in transition and heavy metal partitioning during hydrous iron oxide aging
  • Goethite morphologies investigated via x-ray diffraction of oriented samples
  • Influence of sorbate-sorbent interactions on the crystallization kinetics of nickel- and lead- ferrihydrite coprecipitates
  • Application of synchrotron x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and energy dispersive x-ray analysis to identify contaminant metals on groundwater colloids
  • Applications of laser photoacoustic spectroscopy using an optical parametric oscillator to the study of complexation equilibria in dilute aqueous solutions
  • Molecular characterization of Cr phases in contaminated soils by Cr and Fe EXAFS: A tool for evaluating chemical remediation strategies
  • Pyrene sorption by water-soluble organic carbon
  • Characterization of dissolved and colloidal organic matter in soil solution: A review
  • Measuring metals and metalloids in water, sediment and biological tissues. Techniques in Aquatic Toxicology
  • The effect of silica and phosphate on the transformation of schoepite to becquerelite and other uranyl phases
  • The transformation of uranyl oxide hydrates: The effect of dehydration on synthetic metaschoepite and its alteration to becquerelite
  • Bromine, Chloride, & Fluorine. Methods of Soil Analysis. Part 3. Chemical Methods
  • In situ Cr (VI) reduction within coarse-textured, oxide-coated soil and aquifer systems using Fe (II) solutions
  • In situ measurements of tetraphenylboron degradation kinetics on clay mineral surfaces by IR
  • Distribution and chemical speciation of metals and metalloids in biota collected from contaminated environments by spatially resolved XRF, XANES, and EXAFS
  • Degradation of tetraphenylboron at hydrated smectite surfaces studied by time resolved IR and x-ray absorption spectroscopies
  • Ligands and the bioavailability of metals in aquatic environments
  • Predicting relative toxicity and interactions of divalent metal ions: Microtox bioluminescence assay
  • Biogeochemical aspects of lead, germanium, and tin
  • Beryllium in selected southeastern soils
  • Electrophoretic mobility and particle size of clays using laser doppler velocimetry-photon correlation spectroscopy
  • Synopsis of discussion session on the bioavailability of inorganic contaminants
  • Orchestrating environmental research and assessment for remediation
  • Methanotroph diversity in landfill soil: Isolation of novel Type 1 and Type II methanotrophs whose presence was suggested by culture-independent 16S ribosomal DNA analysis
  • Interactions of acidic metal-rich coal pile runoff with a subsoil
  • Multicomponent transport through soil subjected to coal pile runoff under steady saturated flow
  • Subsurface leachate migration from a reject coal pile in South Carolina
  • Environmental impacts of coal combustion residues
  • Sorption of aromatics in the interlayer space of organo-clays
  • A time resolved XANES study of an organo-clay redox system
  • Swelling and texture of iron-bearing smectites reduced by bacteria
  • Fluoro-aluminum complexes on model and soil exchangers
  • Immobilization of uranium in contaminated sediments by hydroxyapatite addition
  • Synchrotron x-ray microprobe determination of chromate content using x-ray absorption near-edge structure
  • The potential role of sediment mineralogy in regulating aluminum concentrations in lakewater
  • Topological and thermal properties of surfactant-modified clinoptilolite studied by tapping-modeTM atomic force microscopy and high-resolution thermogravimetric analysis
  • Contaminant mobility in soil columns amended with fly ash and flue gas desulfurization gypsum
  • Trace element solubility from land application of fly ash/organic waste mixtures
  • Mechanisms of mobilization and attenuation of inorganic contaminants in coal ash basins
  • Leachability of Ni, Cd, Cr, and As from coal ash impoundments of different ages on the Savannah River Site. Trace Elements in Coal and Coal Combustion Residues
  • Indirect photolysis of tetraphenylborate sensitized by humic acid
  • Photochemical degradation rates of tetraphenylborate and diphenylboric acid sensitized by dissolved organic matter in stream water
  • A statistical bias in the derivation of hardness-dependent metals criteria
  • Faciliated transport of contaminant metals through an acidified aquifer
    • Mineralogical and physicochemical differences between mobile and nonmobile colloidal phases in reconstructed pedons
  • Soil-borne mobile colloids as influenced by water flow and organic carbon
  • Actinide association with groundwater colloids in a coastal plain aquifer
  • Determination of boron in soils containing inorganic and organic boron sources
  • Flue gas desulfurization (FGD) residue : Potential applications and environmental issues
  • Biodegradation rates of separated diesel components
  • Arsenic availability in soil with time under saturated and subsaturated conditions
  • Determination of arsenic species in soil solution under flooded conditions
  • The sorption of nonionic organic solutes to humic acid-mineral complexes: effect of cosolutes
  • The sorption of pyrene and anthracene to humic acid-mineral complexes: effect of fractional organic carbon content
  • The application of bioassays in risk assessment of environmental pollution
  • Abundance of iron-oxidizing thiobachilli and biological sulfur oxidation potential from soil impacted by coal and coal refuse piles
  • Sources and practices contributing to soil contamination. Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils
  • Chemical conditions conducive to the release of mobile colloids from ultisol profiles

Contaminants in plants:

  • Effectiveness of a slow-release herbicide system for control of root intrusions into buried hazardous waste
  • Toxicants as selective agents in population and community dynamics
  • Differential sensitivity of Nyssa aquatica and Taxodium distichum seedlings grown in fly ash amended sand
  • Boron tolerance and potential boron removal by bottomland tree seedlings
  • Zinc uptake by plants on amended polluted soils
  • Plant uptake and determination of arsenic species in soil solution under flooded conditions
  • Bioaccumulation of selenium by floating aquatic plants
  • Phytoavailability and toxicity of beryllium and vanadium
  • Evaluation of three herbaceous index plant species for bioavailability of soil cadmium, chromium, nickel, and vanadium
  • Aluminuim speciation in the presence of wheat root cell walls: a wet chemical study
  • The availability of Cd and Zn to cereal crops grown in soil amended with Cd or Zn carbonate
  • Forms of Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn in soil and their uptake by cereal crops when applied jointly as carbonates
  • Influence of zeolite, apatite and Fe-oxide on Cd and Pb uptake by crops
  • Trace metal impact on plants: mediation by soil and mycorrhizae
  • Trace element toxicity in VA mycorrhizal cucumber grown on weathered coal fly ash
  • Chicory (Cichorium intybus) and dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) as phytoindicators of cadmium contaminators
  • Impacts of coal pile leachate on a forested wetland in South Carolina
  • Effects of soil-applied selenium on the growth and selenium content of a forage species
  • Effects of selected trace metals on germinating seeds of six plant species
  • Growth and elemental content of two tree species growing on abandoned coal fly ash basins
  • Vanadium: toxicity and accumulation by beans
  • Thallium toxicity in bean
  • Uptake of natural and anthropogenic actinides in vegetable crops grown on a contaminated lake bed
  • Comparative availability to wheat of metals from sewage sludge and inorganic salts
  • Elements in coal and coal ash residues and their potential for agricultural crops. Trace Elements in Coal and Coal Combustion Residues
  • Differential cultivar response to polynuclear hydroxo-aluminum complexes
  • Carbon and nitrogen transformations in wastewater during treatment with Hydrocotyle umbellata
  • American beautyberry for borrow pit reclamation in South Carolina
  • Tomato response to long-term potassium and lime application on a sandy ultisol high in nonexchangeable potassium
  • Contrasts of nitrapyrin, dicyandiamide, and isobutylidene diurea effects on total inorganic soil nitrogen
  • Temporal changes in cadmium, thallium, and vanadium mobility in soil and phytoavailability under field conditions

Contaminants in invertebrates:

  • Characterization of microbial abundance and activity from three coal ash basins
  • Mercury contamination and population-level response in chironomids: Can allozyme polymorphism indicate exposure?
  • Elevated standard metabolic rate in a freshwater shrimp (Palaemonetes paludosus) exposed to trace element-rich coal combustion waste
  • Snail (Helix aspersa) exposure history and possible adaptation to lead as reflected in shell composition
  • Predicting relative metal toxicity with ion characteristics: Caenorhabditis elegans LC50
  • Use of ion characteristics to predict relative toxicity of mono-, di- and trivalent metal ions: Caenorhabditis elegans LC50
  • Genetic and conchological comparison of snails (Helix aspersa) differing in shell deposition of lead
  • Sediment preference in the Asiatic clam (Corbicula fluminea) and viviparid snail (Campeloma decisum) as a response to low-level metal and metalloid contamination
  • Predicting the relative toxicity of metal ions using ion characteristics: Microtox bioluminesence assay
  • Effect of metal and metalloid contaminated sediment on the spatial distribution of Asiatic clams (Corbicula fluminea)

Contaminants in fish:

  • Summary. Ecotoxicology: A Hierarchical Treatment
  • Ecotoxicology as a science. Ecotoxicology
  • Zinc elimination kinetics in mosquitofish: a clarification
  • Time-to-event analyses of ecotoxicity data
  • Bioaccumulation models with time lags: Dynamics and stability criteria
  • Allozymes reflect the population-level effect of mercury: simulations of the mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) GPI-2 response
  • Quantifying animal size effects on toxicity: a general approach
  • Enhancing toxicity data interpretation and prediction of ecological risk with survival time modeling: An illustration using sodium chloride toxicity to mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki)
  • Ecologically meaningful estimates of lethal effect in individuals
  • Allometry of metal bioaccumulation and toxicity
  • Time to death of mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) during acute inorganic mercury exposure: population structure effects
  • Analyzing toxicity data using statistical models for time-to-death: An introduction
  • Assessing effect and no effect with equivalence tests. Risk Assessment: Logic and Measurement
  • Effect of beryllium on fish in acid water is analogous to aluminum toxicity
  • Gill Na + ,K + -ATPase activity in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) from three reservoirs with different levels of mercury contamination
  • Responses of eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) to acute salinity stress: do family effects obscure inbreeding and genotype effects?
  • Morphological and morphometric changes in the gills of mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) after exposure to mercury (II)
  • Responses at the tissue level: quantitative methods in histopathology applied to ecotoxicology
  • Disposition and toxicokinetics of diquat in channel catfish
  • Genetic and demographic responses of mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) populations stressed by mercury
  • Genetic factors and tolerance acquisition in populations exposed to metals and metalloids
  • Surface complexation of Al on isolated fish gill cells
  • Genetic and demographic responses of mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) populations exposed to mercury for multiple generations
  • Allozyme genotype and time-to-death of mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki, during acute inorganic mercury exposure: a comparison of populations
  • Use of implantable pellets to administer low levels of methyl mercury to fish
  • Toxicokinetics and disposition of inorganic mercury and cadmium in channel catfish after intravascular administration
  • Effect of water temperature and dissolved oxygen concentration on the photo-induced toxicity of anthracene to juvenile bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus)
  • Effect of anthracene and solar ultraviolet radiation exposure on gill ATPhase and selected hematologic measurements in the bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus)
  • Estimating the oral bioavailability of methylmercury to channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
  • Inhibition of glucosephosphate isomerase allozymes of the mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki, by mercury
  • Glycolysis and krebs cycle metabolites in mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki, exposed to mercuric chloride: allozyme genotype effects
  • Changes in concentrations of glycolysis and Krebs cycle metabolites in mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki, induced by mercuric chloride and starvation
  • Time effects on enzyme activity in the mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki
  • Allozyme genotype in mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki, during mercury exposure: temporal stability, concentration effects and field verification

Contaminants in herps:

  • Increased circulating levels of testosterone and corticosterone in southern toads, Bufo terrestris, exposed to coal combustion waste
  • Responsiveness of the hypothalamo-pituitary-interrenal axis in an amphibian (Bufo terrestris) exposed to coal combustion wastes
  • Elevated trace element concentrations in southern toads, Bufo terrestris, exposed to coal combustion waste
  • Effects of freshwater petroleum contamination on amphibian hatching and metamorphosis
  • Effects of low pH and aluminum on body size, swimming performance and susceptibility to predation of green treefrog (Hyla cinerea) tadpoles
  • Exposure to coal ash impacts swimming performance and predator avoidance in larval bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana)
  • Oral deformities in tadpoles of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) caused by conditions in a polluted habitat
  • Oral deformities in tadpoles (Rana catesbeiana) associated with coal ash deposition: effects on grazing ability and growth
  • Elevated maintenance costs in an anuran (Rana catesbeiana) exposed to a mixture of trace elements during the embryonic and early larval periods
  • Elevated trace element concentrations and standard metabolic rate in banded water snakes (Nerodia fasciata) exposed to coal combustion wastes
  • Trace elements in egg contents and egg shells of slider turtles (Trachemys scripta) from the Savannah River Site
  • Effects of lead on behavior, growth, and survival of hatchling slider turtles
  • Environmental contaminants as concerns for the conservation biology of crocodilians
  • Mercury in alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) in the southeastern United States
  • Tissue mercury concentrations in alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from the Florida Everglades and the Savannah River Site, South Carolina

Contaminants in birds and mammals:

  • Prediction of contaminant accumulation by free-living organisms: applications of a sigmoidal model
  • Sigmoid models for the uptake, concentration and effects of metals in consumer organisms
  • Lack of demonstratable effects of pollutants on cyt b sequences in wood ducks from a contaminated nuclear reactor cooling pond
  • Dietary exposure to mercury in nestling wood storks (Mycteria americana) in Georgia
  • Applications of a modified Richards sigmoid model to assess the uptake and effects of environmental contaminants upon birds
  • Metal Levels in mourning doves from South Carolina: potential hazards to doves and hunters
  • A risk assessment for consumers of mourning doves
  • Impacts of toxicants on population dynamics and gene diversity in avian species
  • Assessment of metal uptake and genetic damage in small mammals inhabiting a fly ash basin

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