Low frequency of anti-acetylcholinesterase pesticide poisoning in lesser and Eurasian kestrels of Spanish grassland and farmland populations

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 499-505

  Vergara, Pablo ^a   Fargallo, Juan A ^a   Banda, Eva ^b   Parejo, Deseada ^c   Lemus, Jesús A ^a   García Montijano, Marino ^d  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^d Gir Diagnostics SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Albumin globulin ratio; Carbamate; Falco naumanni; Falco tinnunculus; Organophosphorus

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARBAMATE; CONSERVATION; FARMING SYSTEM; GRASSLAND; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; NESTLING; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PASTURE; PESTICIDE; POISONING; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DECLINE; RAPTOR; TOXICITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

FALCO NAUMANNI; FALCO TINNUNCULUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 39649094952     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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