Trace elements in moose (Alces alces) found dead in Northwestern Minnesota, USA

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 330, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 81-87

  Custer, Thomas W ^a   Cox, Eric ^b   Gray, Brian ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Copper; Liver; Minnesota; Moose; Selenium

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COPPER; HEALTH; SELENIUM; TOXICITY;

COPPER CONCENTRATIONS; DEFICIENCIES; MOOSE;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ARSENIC; BORON; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; MOLYBDENUM; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM; ZINC; HEAVY METAL;

BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; COPPER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; SELENIUM; TOXICITY; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER DEFICIENCY; LIVER TOXICITY; MOOSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELENIUM DEFICIENCY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES; AGE; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; DEER; FEMALE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; WILD ANIMAL;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALCES ALCES; BOS TAURUS;

AGE FACTORS; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DEER; FEMALE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; METALS, HEAVY; MINNESOTA; MORTALITY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 4644285383     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.03.019     Document Type: Article

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