Soil ingestion by sheep grazing the metal enriched floodplain soils of mid-Wales

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-24

  Abrahams, Peter W ^a   Steigmajer, Jörg ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Floodplain; Lead; Metals; Soil contamination; Soil ingestion; Wales

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; HEAVY METAL; INGESTION RATE; SHEEP; SOIL POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SEASON; SHEEP; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER FLOW;

ADSORPTION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METALS, HEAVY; SEASONS; SHEEP; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WALES; WATER MOVEMENTS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0037359436     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021217402950     Document Type: Article

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