Contamination of Donana food-chains after the Aznalcollar mine disaster

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 387-390

  Meharg, A A ^a   Osborn, D ^a   Pain, D J ^b   Sanchez A ^c   Naveso, M A ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c Soc Espanola de Ornitologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Donana; Metal contamination; Scirpus; Spain; Typha

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

FOOD CHAIN; HEAVY METAL; MINE WASTE; POLLUTION EFFECT; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; DUCK; FOOD CHAIN; MINING; NONHUMAN; SPAIN; WILDLIFE;

SPAIN;

AVES; SCHOENOPLECTUS MARITIMUS; SCIRPUS; TYPHA; TYPHA DOMINGUENSIS;

EID: 0033151322     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(99)00033-0     Document Type: Article

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