Does small mammal prey guild affect the exposure of predators to anticoagulant rodenticides?

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3106-3112

  Tosh, D G ^a,b   McDonald, R A ^c   Bearhop, S ^d   Lllewellyn, N R ^b   Fee, S ^e   Sharp, E A ^f   Barnett, E A ^c   Shore, R F ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brodifacoum; Flocoumafen; Fox; Great Britain; Habitat; Ireland; Prey guild; Second generation anticoagulant rodenticides; Secondary exposure

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDE; BRODIFACOUM; FLOCOUMAFEN; FOX; GREAT BRITAIN; HABITAT; IRELAND; PREY GUILD; SECONDARY EXPOSURE;

PESTICIDES; RAT CONTROL;

MAMMALS;

ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDE; BRODIFACOUM; BROMADIOLONE; CHLOROPHACINONE; COUMATETRALYL; DIFENACOUM; FLOCOUMAFEN; RODENTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WARFARIN;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL MAMMAL;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOX; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IRELAND; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PREY GUILD; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNITED KINGDOM; VULPES VULPES;

4-HYDROXYCOUMARINS; ANIMALS; ANTICOAGULANTS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; FOXES; IRELAND; LIVER; MALE; MAMMALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RODENTICIDES;

NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 80052328819     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.03.028     Document Type: Article

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