Causes of Ring-Related Leg Injuries in Birds - Evidence and Recommendations from Four Field Studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Griesser, Michael ^a,b,c   Schneider, Nicole A ^b,d   Collis, Mary Anne ^e   Overs, Anthony ^e   Guppy, Michael ^e   Guppy, Sarah ^e   Takeuchi, Naoko ^e   Collins, Pete ^f   Peters, Anne ^g   Hall, Michelle L ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e Soldiers Hill ^*

^f Soldiers Hill   (Australia)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; PLASTIC;

ACANTHIZA PUSILLA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FOOT INJURY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTERNET; LEG INJURY; LEG RINGING; MALURUS CORONATUS; NONHUMAN; PERISOREUS INFAUSTUS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; INFLAMMATION; LEG INJURIES; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PLASTICS;

ACANTHIZA PUSILLA; AVES; CORVIDAE; MALURUS CORONATUS; PERISOREUS INFAUSTUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84871542034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051891     Document Type: Article

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