Breeding performance of great tits (Parus major) along a gradient of heavy metal pollution

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1140-1145

  Janssens, Ellen ^a   Dauwe, Tom ^a   Pinxten, Rianne ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breeding performance; Great tits; Heavy metal pollution; Parus major

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; SMELTING;

HEAVY METAL POLLUTION;

POLLUTION;

HEAVY METAL;

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HEAVY METAL; PASSERINE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

BELGIUM; BIRD; BREEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; EGG LAYING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HATCHING; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS;

BELGIUM;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037403466     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(2003)022<1140:BPOGTP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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