Cadmium and lead exposure associated with reduced growth rates, poorer fledging success of little blue heron chicks (Egretta caerulea) in south Louisiana wetlands

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 377-384

  Spahn, S A ^a,b   Sherry, T W ^b  

^a Trinity School at Greenlawn   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; LEAD;

CADMIUM; FLEDGING; GROWTH RATE; LEAD; POLLUTION EFFECT; WADER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CADMIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; LEAD; LOUISIANA; MALE;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; EGRETTA CAERULEA; SCOLOPACIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032848469     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002449900528     Document Type: Article

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