Avian Mortality Events in the United States Caused by Anticholinesterase Pesticides: A Retrospective Summary of National Wildlife Health Center Records from 1980 to 2000

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 542-550

  Fleischli, M A ^a   Franson, J C ^a   Thomas, N J ^a   Finley, D L ^a   Riley Jr , W ^b  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOFURAN; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DIMPYLATE; FAMPHUR; FENTHION; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AVIFAUNA; CARBAMATE; MORTALITY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CARCASS; DATA BASE; DUCKS AND GEESE; ECOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FALCONIFORMES; FOWL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPECIES; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANIMALIA; ANSER; ANSERIFORMES; AVES; FALCONIFORMES; GALLIFORMES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 1942466519     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-003-3065-y     Document Type: Review

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