| metal and metallothionein concentrations in scoter (melanitta spp.) from the pacific northwest of canada, 1989-1994. | eighty-six surf ( melanitta perspicillata) and nine white winged (m. fusca) scoters were collected from 1989-1994 at 11 locations in british columbia and the yukon. their kidney and liver tissues were analyzed for cadmium (cd), copper (cu), zinc (zn), and metallothionein (mt) concentrations. individual kidney cd values ranged from 2.4 microg/g dry weight (dw) in birds from northern vancouver island to 390.2 microg/g (dw) in birds from the queen charlotte islands, which is in the range of values ... | 2002 | 12399921 |