Immune and growth response of Western Bluebirds and Ash-throated Flycatchers to soil contaminants

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1817-1829

  Fair, Jeanne M ^a,b   Myers, Orrin B ^a   Ricklefs, Robert E ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen; Ash throated Flycatcher; Contaminants; Immunocompetence; Myiarchus cinerascens; Nestling mortality; Sialia mexicana; Western Bluebird

Indexed keywords

ECOTOXICOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PASSERINE; SOIL POLLUTION;

LOS ALAMOS; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

FRAXINUS; MYIARCHUS; MYIARCHUS CINERASCENS; PASSERIFORMES; SIALIA; SIALIA MEXICANA;

EID: 1642390186     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5058     Document Type: Article

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