Mercury exposure in terrestrial birds far downstream of an historical point source

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3302-3308

  Jackson, Allyson K ^a,b   Evers, David C ^a   Folsom, Sarah B ^a   Condon, Anne M ^c   Diener, John ^a   Goodrick, Lizzie F ^a   McGann, Andrew J ^b   Schmerfeld, John ^c   Cristol, Daniel A ^b  

^a BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b William and Mary   (United States)

^c US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination; Downstream; Floodplain; Mercury; Songbirds

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC CONTAMINANTS; DOWNSTREAM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; FOOD WEBS; HG CONCENTRATIONS; LONG LASTING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MERCURY EXPOSURE; POINT SOURCES; SONGBIRDS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TERRESTRIAL FORESTS; TERRESTRIAL HABITAT; VIRGINIA;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIRDS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE POLLUTION; MERCURY (METAL); RIVER POLLUTION;

RIVERS;

MERCURY;

BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOODPLAIN; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POINT SOURCE; RIVER POLLUTION; SONGBIRD;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOODPLAIN; FOOD WEB; NONHUMAN; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SONGBIRD; SPECIES HABITAT; STREAM (RIVER); TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CHAIN; MERCURY; RIVERS; SONGBIRDS; VIRGINIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

SHENANDOAH RIVER; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

AVES;

EID: 80053633044     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.08.046     Document Type: Article

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