Pollution impacts on bird population density and species diversity at four non-ferrous smelter sites

Biological Conservation

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-41

  Eeva, Tapio ^a   Belskii, Eugen ^b   Gilyazov, Alex S ^c   Kozlov, Mikhail V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c Lapland Biosphere Reserve   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Forest birds; Heavy metals; Population density; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; HEAVY METAL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION DENSITY; SMELTING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBLETHAL EFFECT;

FINLAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

AVES;

EID: 84860215430     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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