Selenium and other trace metals in pelicans dying at the Salton Sea

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 590-597

  Bruehler, G ^a,b   De Peyster, A ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DISNEY S ANIMAL KINGDOM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; SELENIUM; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; IMMUNOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; SEA POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANIMALS, ZOO; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CALIFORNIA; FRESH WATER; KIDNEY; LIVER; SELENIUM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PELECANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032731780     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289901021     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Baecher-Steppan L, Nakaue HS, Matsumoto M, Gainer JH, Kerkvliet NI (1989) The broiler chicken as a model for immunotoxicity assessment. 1: Standardization of in vitro immunological assays. Fund Appl Toxicol 12:773-786.
2. Bishop CA, Boermans HJ, Ng P, Campbell GD, Struger J (1998) Health of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) nesting in pesticide-sprayed apple orchards in Ontario, Canada. I. Immunological parameters. J Toxicol Environ Health 55:531-559
3. Bobker G (1993) Death in the Ponds: Selenium-induced waterbird deaths and deformities at agricultural evaporation ponds. The Bay Institute of San Francisco, Sausalito
4. Burns LA, Meade BJ, Munson AE (1996) Toxic responses of the immune system. In: In: Klaassen CD (ed) Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons. McGraw-Hill, New York
5. Fairbrother A, Fowles J (1990) Subchronic effects of sodium selenite and selenomethionine on immune functions of the mallard. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 19:836-844
6. Fairbrother A, Fix M, O'Hara T, Ribic CA (1994) Impairment of growth and immune function of avocet chicks from sites with elevated selenium, arsenic and boron. J Wildlife Dis 30:222-233.
7. Furness RW (1996) Cadmium in birds. In: Beyer WN, Heinz GH, RedmonNorwood AW (eds) Environmental contaminants in wildlife: Interpreting tissue concentrations. SETAC Press, Pensacola
8. Goyer RA (1996) Toxic effects of metals. In: Klaassen CD (ed) Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons. McGraw-Hill, New York
9. Koranda JD, Stuart M, Thompson S, Conrado C (1979) Biogeochemical studies of wintering waterfowl in the Imperial and Sacramento Valleys: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Report on Department of Energy Contract W-7405-Eng-48, UCID-18288.
10. Luebke RW, Hodson PV, Faisal M, Ross PS, Grasman KA, Zelikoff J (1997) Aquatic pollution-induced immunotoxicity in wildlife species. Fund Appl Toxicol 37:1-15
11. Peterle TJ (1991) Wildlife Toxicology. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY. 322 p.
12. Roberts TA, Collings AM (1973) An outbreak of type C botulism in broiler chicken. Avian Dis 17:650-658
13. Setmire JG, Wolfe JC, Stroud RK (1990) Reconnaissance investigation of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the Salton Sea Area, 1986-87. USGS, Sacramento
14. Setmire JG, Schroeder RA, Densmore JN, Goodbred SL, Audet DJ, Radke WR (1993) Detailed study of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the Salton Sea area, 1988-90. USGS, Sacramento
15. Thompson DR (1990) Metals in marine vertebrates. In: Furness RW, Rainbow PS (eds.) Heavy Metals in the Marine Environment. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
16. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1997). Saving the Salton Sea: A Research Needs Assessment. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. October, 1997.
17. Wickliffe JK, Bickham JW (1998) Flow cytometric analysis of hematocytes from brown pelicans (Pelicanus occidentalis) exposed to planar halogenated hydrocarbon and heavy metals. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 61:239-246
18. Zelikoff JT (1998) Biomarkers of immunotoxicity in fish and other non-mammalian sentinel species: Predictive value for mammals? Toxicol 129:63-71.