Potential effects of environmental contaminants on recovery of the aplomado falcon in south Texas

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1288-1296

  Mora, Miguel A ^a   Lee, M Clare ^b   Jenny, J Peter ^c   Schultz, Thomas W ^b   Sericano, Jose L ^a   Clum, Nancy J ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^c THE PEREGRINE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Aplomado falcon; Birds; Contaminants; Endangered species; Falco femoralis; Lower Rio Grande Valley; Organochlorines; Recovery; Texas; Trace metals; Wildlife toxicology

Indexed keywords

APLOMADO FALCON; DDE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; MERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCBS;

TEXAS; USA;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; COLUMBIFORMES; FALCO FEMORALIS; QUISCALUS MEXICANUS; STURNELLA; STURNELLA MAGNA; ZENAIDA MACROURA;

EID: 0031425603     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802128     Document Type: Article

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