Environmental Contaminants

Neff, M.R., S.P. Bhavsar, R. Law, R. Fletcher, D.O. Carpenter, K. Drouillard, A. Fisk and M.T. Arts. 2014. Fatty acid profiles of Lake Erie sport fish and relationships with fish size, sex, season and location. Journal of Great Lakes Research 40: 37-42 (email me for a pdf)

Neff, M.R., J.M. Robinson, S.P. Bhavsar. 2013. Assessment of fish mercury levels in the upper St. Lawrence River, Canada. Journal of Great Lakes Research 39: 336-343 DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2013.03.005<. (email me for a pdf)

Neff, M.R., S.P. Bhavsar, and J.X.Y. Chin. 2012. Spatial and temporal trends of muscle lipid content in Great Lakes fishes: 1970s-2008. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 69:2007-2017 DOI: 10.1139/f2012-121. (email me for a pdf)
Neff, M.R., S.P. Bhavsar, G.B. Arhonditsis, R. Fletcher, and D.A. Jackson. 2012. Long-term changes in fish mercury levels in historically impacted English-Wabigoon River system (Canada). Journal of Environmental Monitoring 14, 2327-2337. doi: 10.1039/C2EM30324H. (email me for a pdf)

Neff, M.R. and D.A. Jackson. 2012. Geology as a structuring mechanism of stream fish communities. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 141:962-974. (abstract online) doi: 10.1080/00028487.2012.676591. (email me for a pdf)

French, T.D., S. Petro, E.J. Reiner, S.P. Bhavsar, and D.A. Jackson. 2011. Thirty-year time series of PCB concentrations in a small invertivorous fish (Notropis hudsonius): An examination of post-1990 trajectory shifts in the lower Great Lakes. Ecosystems 14:415-429. (pdf) DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9419-9

Gewurtz, S.B., S.P. Bhavsar, D.A. Jackson, E. Awad, J.G. Winter, E.J. Reiner, R. Moody, and R. Fletcher. 2011. Trends of legacy and emerging-issue contaminants in Lake Simcoe fishes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 36:100-112. (pdf) doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2010.07.001

Gerwurtz, S.B., S.P. Bhavsar, D.A. Jackson, R. Fletcher, E. Awad, R. Moody, and E.J. Reiner. 2010. Temporal and Spatial Trends of Organochlorines and Mercury in Fishes from the St. Clair River/Lake St. Clair Corridor, Canada. Journal of Great Lakes Research 36: 100-112. (pdf) doi: 10.1016/j.jglr.2009.09.002

Bhavsar, S.P., A. Hayton, and D.A. Jackson. 2008. Uncertainty analysis of dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls-related toxic equivalents in fish. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 27:997-1005. (pdf) doi:10.1897/07-460.1

Bhavsar, S., D.A. Jackson, A. Hayton, E. Reiner, T. Chen and J. Bodnar. 2007. Are PCB levels in fish from the Canadian Great Lakes still declining? Journal of Great Lakes Research 33:592-605. (pdf) doi: 10.3394/0380-1330(2007)33[592:APLIFF]2.0.CO;2

Bhavsar, S.P., Fletcher, R., Hayton, A., Reiner, E.J., and D.A. Jackson. 2007. Composition of dioxin-line PCBs in fish: an application for risk assessment. Environmental Science and Technology 41:3096-3102. (pdf) doi: 10.1021/es062402y

Bhavsar, S.P,, Hayton, A., Reiner, E.J., and D.A. Jackson. 2007. Estimating dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyl toxic equivalents from total polychlorinated biphenyl measurements in fish. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 26:1622-1628. (pdf) doi: 10.1897/06-621R.1

French, T.D., Campbell, L.M., Jackson, D.A., Casselman, J.M., Scheider, W.A., and A. Hayton. 2006. Long-term changes in legacy trace organic contaminants and mercury in Lake Ontario salmon in relation to source controls, trophodynamics, and climatic variability. Limnology and Oceanography 51:2794-2807. (pdf) doi:10.4319/lo.2006.51.6.2794

Somers, K.M. and D.A. Jackson. 1993. Adjusting mercury concentration for fish-size covariation: a multivariate alternative to bivariate regression. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 50:2388-2396. (pdf) doi: 10.1139/f93-263