Organochlorine and heavy metal contamination in non-viable eggs and its relation to breeding success in a Spanish population of Lesser Kestrels (Falco naumanni)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 201-205

  Negro, J J ^a   Donazar J A ^a   Hiraldo, F ^a   Hernandez L M ^b   Fernandez M A ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA ORGÁNICA GENERAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; ZINC;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTAMINATION; EGG; EGG SHELL; HATCHING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; REPRODUCTION; SPAIN; STARVATION;

CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; LESSER KESTREL; MERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCBS; ZINC;

SPAIN;

EID: 0027338377     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0269-7491(93)90118-8     Document Type: Article

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