Source-pathway-receptor investigation of the fate of trace elements derived from shotgun pellets discharged in terrestrial ecosystems managed for game shooting

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2663-2669

  Sneddon, Jennifer ^a   Clemente, Rafael ^a   Riby, Philip ^a   Lepp, Nicholas W ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimony; Arsenic; Game shooting; Lead

Indexed keywords

BODY SURFACE; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; ELEMENT TRANSFER; GAME SHOOTING; GUT CONTENTS; LEAD CONCENTRATION; SHOT AREA; SMALL MAMMALS; SOIL PORE WATERS; SOIL WATER; SOIL-SOIL; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TROPHIC LEVEL; TWO SOURCES;

AGRICULTURE; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOSYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; MAMMALS; PELLETIZING; SOIL MOISTURE; TRACE ELEMENTS; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER;

LEAD;

LEAD; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER;

ARSENIC; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOTA; EARTHWORM; LEAD; PASTURE; SOIL POLLUTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TRACE ELEMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL; WOODLAND;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST; MAMMAL; PASTURE; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPLOSIVE AGENTS; FIREARMS; LEAD; OLIGOCHAETA; PLANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 67849118624     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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