Patterns of environmental lead exposure in waterfowl in Eastern Canada

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Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 14-20

  Scheuhammer, Anton M ^a,b   Dickson, Kathy M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUNTING; LEAD; WATERFOWL;

CANADA, (EAST);

ANAS; ANAS SP.; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AVES;

EID: 0029667678     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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40. The authors wish to thank Mary Gamberg for coordinating the wing collections for this project: Della Bond for managing the laboratory aspects of the project: Eva Neugebauer for performing the majority of the Pb analyses; Elyse Routhier for determining the lat./long. coordinates for cities, mines, and smelters; Myrtle Bateman and other CWS-Atlantic Region staff for providing wings of ducks for which gizzard examination had been performed; and Steve Wendt for developing some of the computer programs used in the data analyses.
41. First submitted 3 October 1994. Accepted for publication after revision 17 August 1995.