Widening the problem of lead poisoning to a South-American top scavenger: Lead concentrations in feathers of wild Andean condors

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1464-1471

  Lambertucci, Sergio A ^a   Donázar, José Antonio ^b   Huertas, Antonio Delgado ^c   Jiménez, Begoña ^d   Sáez, Mónica ^d   Sanchez Zapata, José Antonio ^e   Hiraldo, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA ORGÁNICA GENERAL   (Spain)

^e MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammunition; Bullet; Lead poisoning; Patagonia; Scavenger; Vultur gryphus

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOOD CHAIN; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR; RAPTOR; SCAVENGER; WILD POPULATION;

EUROPE; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; RAPTORES; VULTUR GRYPHUS;

EID: 79956216172     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.01.015     Document Type: Article

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