Primary and secondary poisoning by anticoagulant rodenticides of non-target animals in Spain

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 420, Issue , 2012, Pages 280-288

  Sánchez Barbudo, Inés S ^a   Camarero, Pablo R ^a   Mateo, Rafael ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant rodenticide; Pesticide; Poisoning; Spain; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDE; CLINICAL INFORMATION; DOMESTIC ANIMALS; EU REGULATIONS; GEOMETRIC MEAN; RESIDUE LEVEL; SECOND GENERATION; SECONDARY CONSUMERS; SECONDARY POISONING; SPAIN; TOXICOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; WET WEIGHT; WILDLIFE; WILDLIFE SPECIES;

CATALYST POISONING; MAMMALS; PESTICIDES;

RAT CONTROL;

BRODIFACOUM; BROMADIOLONE; CHLOROPHACINONE; COUMATETRALYL; DIFENACOUM; DIPHENADIONE; DIPHETIALONE; FLOCOUMAFEN; RODENTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WARFARIN;

PESTICIDE; POISONING; PREDATOR; RODENT; TOXICOLOGY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; CADAVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LETHAL DOSE; LETHALITY; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER TOXICITY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SPAIN; SPECIES COMPARISON; TARGET ORGANISM; TOXICITY TESTING; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANTICOAGULANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LETHAL DOSE 50; POISONING; RODENTICIDES; SPAIN;

SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; RAPTORES; REPTILIA;

EID: 84857646306     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.01.028     Document Type: Article

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