Further assessment of environmental contaminants in avian prey of the peregrine falcon in big bend National Park, Texas

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-59

  Mora, Miguel A ^a   Skiles, Raymond S ^b   Paredes, Marcos ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; FALCO PEREGRINUS; FALCO PEREGRINUS ANATUM;

EID: 33947624684     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2007)52[54:FAOECI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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