Correlates between Feeding Ecology and Mercury Levels in Historical and Modern Arctic Foxes (Vulpes lagopus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Bocharova, Natalia ^a   Treu, Gabriele ^b   Czirják, Gábor Árpád ^b   Krone, Oliver ^b   Stefanski, Volker ^c   Wibbelt, Gudrun ^b   Unnsteinsdóttir, Ester Rut ^d   Hersteinsson, Páll ^d   Schares, Gereon ^e   Doronina, Lilia ^a   Goltsman, Mikhail ^a   Greenwood, Alex D ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^e FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTYPE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FELINE PANLEUKOPENIA VIRUS; FEMALE; FOX; HAIR ANALYSIS; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VULPEX LAGOPUS;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOXES; HAIR; ICELAND; MALE; MERCURY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; VERTEBRATA; VULPES LAGOPUS;

EID: 84877096562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060879     Document Type: Article

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