Relationships between metal concentrations in great tit nestlings and their environment and food

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-380

  Dauwe, Tom ^a   Janssens, Ellen ^a   Bervoets, Lieven ^a   Blust, Ronny ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Foliage; Food; Great tit nestlings; Heavy metal pollution

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

EXCRETA; FEATHERS; TIT NESTLINGS;

METALS;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY; NICKEL; SILVER; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; FOLIAGE; HEAVY METAL; NESTLING;

ARTICLE; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEATHER; FOOD; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FECES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; METALS, HEAVY; PLANT LEAVES; SONGBIRDS;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; PARUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES; PHACELIA CONGESTA;

EID: 3142720383     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2004.03.009     Document Type: Article

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