Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6975, 2004, Pages 630-633

  Oaks, J Lindsay ^a   Gilbert, Martin ^b   Virani, Munir Z ^b   Watson, Richard T ^b   Meteyer, Carol U ^c   Rideout, Bruce A ^d   Shivaprasad, H L ^e   Ahmed, Shakeel ^f   Chaudhry, Muhammad Jamshed Iqbal ^f   Arshad, Muhammad ^f   Mahmood, Shahid ^f   Ali, Ahmad ^f   Khan, Aleem Ahmed ^f  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE PEREGRINE FUND   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f BAHAUDDIN ZAKARIYA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISEASES; DRUG PRODUCTS; ECOLOGY; FARMS;

RENAL DISEASES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

DICLOFENAC; DRUG RESIDUE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; VETERINARY DRUG;

BIRD; EXTINCTION RISK; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; POLLUTANT SOURCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GOUT; GYPS BENGALENSIS; GYPS INDICUS; GYPS TENUIROSTRIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVESTOCK; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPTOR; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; VULTURE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; AUTOPSY; BIRD DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DICLOFENAC; DIET; DRUG RESIDUES; FOOD CHAIN; GOUT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER; PAKISTAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAPTORS; URIC ACID; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ASIA; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GYPS; GYPS AFRICANUS; GYPS BENGALENSIS; GYPS INDICUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 10744232735     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02317     Document Type: Article

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