Satellite telemetry and prey sampling reveal contaminant sources to pacific northwest ospreys

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1223-1233

  Elliott, John E ^a   Morrissey, Christy A ^a   Henny, Charles J ^b   Inzunza, Ernesto Ruelas ^c   Shaw, Patrick ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Pronatura Veracruz ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

DDT; Mexico; Migration; Osprey; Pandion haliaetus; Persistent organic pollutants; Satellite telemetry

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; DDT; METABOLITE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; PERSISTENCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RADIOTELEMETRY; RAPTOR; SATELLITE DATA; TRACKING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; COLUMBIA RIVER; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; VERACRUZ; WASHINGTON [DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA];

ARIIDAE; AVES; PANDION; PANDION HALIAETUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FISH; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANT; PREDATION; RAPTOR; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FISHES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RAPTORS; TELEMETRY;

EID: 34447131512     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1213     Document Type: Article

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