Estimating the rate of poisoning by insecticide-treated seeds in a bird population

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 657-664

  Prosser, P J ^a   Hart, A D M ^a   Langton, S D ^b   McKay, H V ^a   Cooke, A S ^c  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFRA   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Mortality monitoring; Pesticides; Seed treatments; Telemetry; Woodpigeon

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOMONITORING; BIRD; GRANIVORY; INSECTICIDE; MORTALITY; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; POISONING; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEED TREATMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTOXICATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PESTICIDE POISONING; PIGEON; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED TREATMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSE; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INCIDENCE; INSECTICIDES; POISONING; SEEDS;

EAST ANGLIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; COLUMBA PALUMBUS;

EID: 33751115452     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-006-0103-3     Document Type: Article

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