Chlordane poisoning of birds in New Jersey, USA

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2095-2099

  Stansley, William ^a   Roscoe, Douglas E ^a  

^a Off Fish Wildl Hlth and Forensics   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Chlordane; Chlorinated pesticides; Cyclodienes

Indexed keywords

CHLORDANE;

AVIFAUNA; CHLORDANE; MASS MORTALITY; POISONING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVULSION; INTOXICATION; NONHUMAN; OPISTHOTONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

ACCIPITER COOPERI; ACCIPITER COOPERII; ACCIPITRINAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; QUISCALUS QUISCULA; RAPTORES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS;

EID: 0032779255     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<2095:CPOBIN>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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