Responses of wild small mammals to arsenic pollution at a partially remediated mining site in Southern France

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2014, Pages 1012-1022

  Drouhot, Séverine ^a   Raoul, Francis ^a   Crini, Nadia ^a   Tougard, Christelle ^b   Prudent, Anne Sophie ^a   Druart, Coline ^a   Rieffel, Dominique ^a   Lambert, Jean Claude ^a   Tête, Nicolas ^a   Giraudoux, Patrick ^a,c   Scheifler, Renaud ^a  

^a University of Franche Comté   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Body condition index; Oral exposure; Small mammals; Somatic indices; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; MAMMALS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

BODY CONDITION; ORAL EXPOSURE; SMALL MAMMALS; SOMATIC INDICES; WILDLIFE;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; DIET; GOLD; HABITAT; RODENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL REMEDIATION;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCIDURA RUSSULA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FRANCE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MUS SPRETUS; NONHUMAN; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL MAMMAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; STOMACH CONTENT; WILDLIFE;

ALGERIA; FRANCE;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; CROCIDURA; CROCIDURA RUSSULA; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MUS; MUS SPRETUS;

BIOACCUMULATION; BODY CONDITION INDEX; ORAL EXPOSURE; SMALL MAMMALS; SOMATIC INDICES; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ARVICOLINAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FRANCE; MAMMALS; MINING; MURINAE; SHREWS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84887585167     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.053     Document Type: Article

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