Water pollution by Cu and Pb can adversely affect mallard embryonic development

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-73

  Kertész, Virág ^a   Bakonyi, Gábor ^a   Farkas, Beáta ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Copper; Development; Developmental anomaly; Lead; Mallard; Mortality; Pollution

Indexed keywords

COPPER; LEAD; WATER;

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BIRD; EGG DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; HEAVY METAL; MORTALITY; POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FAUNA; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUNGARY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SEDIMENT; TERATOGENICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; TISZA RIVER;

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; AVES;

EID: 33746518646     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2005.05.016     Document Type: Article

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