Spatial and temporal analysis of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide residues in polecats (Mustela putorius) from throughout their range in Britain, 1992-1999

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-193

  Shore, R F ^a   Birks, J D S ^b   Afsar, A ^a   Wienburg, C L ^a   Kitchener, A C ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Martin Ryan Building   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bromadiolone; Difenacoum; Mustelids; Second generation anticoagulant rodenticides; Secondary poisoning

Indexed keywords

COAGULATION; CONTAMINATION; POLLUTION;

ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BRODIFACOUM; BROMADIOLONE; DIFENACOUM; FLOCOUMAFEN; RODENTICIDE;

NONTARGET ORGANISM; PESTICIDE; POISONING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INCIDENCE; INTOXICATION; LIVER LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POLLUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

4-HYDROXYCOUMARINS; ANIMALS; ANTICOAGULANTS; FEMALE; FERRETS; GREAT BRITAIN; LIVER; MALE; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; RODENTICIDES; TIME FACTORS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; MUSTELA; MUSTELA PUTORIUS; MUSTELIDAE;

EID: 12244251382     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(02)00297-X     Document Type: Article

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