Relationships between stomach content and concentrations of essential and non-essential elements in tissues of omnivorous nestling rooks Corvus frugilegus: Is the size and composition of stomach content relevant?

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 282-289

  Orłowski, Grzegorz ^a   Kamiński, Piotr ^b,c   Kasprzykowski, Zbigniew ^d   Zawada, Zbigniew ^c  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA   (Poland)

^d SIEDLCE UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bird diet; Cadmium; Lead; Non essential metals; Soil invertebrate feeding birds

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIRD; CADMIUM; DIET; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; INVERTEBRATE; LEAD; METAL; NESTLING; OMNIVORY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; STOMACH CONTENT;

POLAND;

EID: 84892529219     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25225/fozo.v62.i4.a5.2013     Document Type: Article

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