Contamination with nonessential metals from a solid-waste incinerator correlates with nutritional and immunological stress in prefledgling black kites (Milvus migrans)

Environmental Research

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 94-101

  Blanco, Guillermo ^a   Jiménez, Begoña ^b   Frías, Oscar ^c   Millan, Javier ^a   Dávila, José A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA ORGÁNICA GENERAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Black kites; Body condition; H:L ratio; Heavy metals; Solid waste incineration

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY; METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN; ZINC;

BIRD; CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INCINERATION; NUTRITION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; ZINC;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIRD; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BODY MASS; CONTAMINATION; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DETOXIFICATION; DEVICE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INCINERATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NESTING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID WASTE; STRESS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

ACCIPITRIDAE; MILVUS; MILVUS MIGRANS;

EID: 0344551942     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-9351(03)00120-8     Document Type: Article

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