Do mosquito control treatments of wetlands affect red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) growth, reproduction, or behavior?

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1014-1019

  Hanowski, Joann M ^a   Niemi, Gerald J ^a   Lima, Ann R ^a   Regal, Ronald R ^b  

^a Natural Resources Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Mosquito control; Red winged blackbird; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

METHOPRENE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; GROWTH; HATCHING; INSECT CONTROL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

AGELAIUS; AGELAIUS PHOENICEUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ISRAELENSIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 0030955485     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620160522     Document Type: Article

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