Mercury concentrations and space use of pre-breeding American avocets and black-necked stilts in San Francisco Bay

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 384, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 452-466

  Ackerman, Joshua T ^a   Eagles Smith, Collin A ^b   Takekawa, John Y ^a   Demers, Scott A ^c   Adelsbach, Terrence L ^b   Bluso, Jill D ^c   Keith Miles, A ^a   Warnock, Nils ^d   Suchanek, Thomas H ^a   Schwarzbach, Steven E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Avocets; Blood; Mercury; San Francisco Bay; Stilts; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; TELEMETERING;

AVOCETS; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; STILTS;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

DIET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RADIOTELEMETRY; SPACE USE; TRACKING; WADER;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORAGING; GEOMETRY; HABITAT; HIMANTOPUS MEXICANUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA; SHOREBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELEMETRY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MERCURY; SAN FRANCISCO; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CHARADRIIDAE; HIMANTOPUS MEXICANUS; RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA;

EID: 34548089481     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.04.027     Document Type: Article

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