Diagnosis of heavy metal contamination in agro-ecology of Gujranwala, Pakistan using cattle egret (Bubulcus Ibis) as bioindicator

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 247-251

  Bostan, Nazish ^a   Ashraf, Muhammad ^a   Mumtaz, Abdul S ^a   Ahmad, Iftikhar ^b  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cattle Egret; Heavy metals; Industrial Pollutants; Regurgitate; Sediments

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; NICKEL; SILVER;

AGROECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EGG; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; POLLUTION; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION MONITORING; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; WADER;

AGROECOSYSTEM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIRD; BREEDING; CATTLE; CONTAMINATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; OVUM; PAKISTAN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

ASIA; EURASIA; GUJRANWALA; LAHORE; PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN]; SOUTH ASIA;

AVES; BUBULCUS; BUBULCUS IBIS;

EID: 33847168568     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-006-0124-y     Document Type: Article

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