Avian food selection with application to pesticide risk assessment: Are dead and desiccated insects a desirable food source?

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1335-1339

  Stafford, Jennifer M ^a   Brewer, Larry W ^a   Gessaman, James A ^b  

^a Smithers Viscient   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian food selection; Pesticide exposure; Pesticide residues; Pesticide risk assessment

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

INVERTEBRATES;

PESTICIDE EFFECTS;

PESTICIDE;

AVIFAUNA; DESICCATION; FOOD SELECTION; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORN; CROP; DESICCATION; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOWL; INSECT; INVERTEBRATE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ORCHARD; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PREY SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PREFERENCES; INSECTS; LARVA; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES; GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0042317008     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(2003)022<1335:AFSWAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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