Snail consumption and breeding performance of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) along a pollution gradient in the Middle Urals, Russia

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 490, Issue , 2014, Pages 114-120

  Belskii, Eugen ^a   Grebennikov, Maxim ^a  

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

Author keywords

Acidification; Calcium availability; Ficedula hypoleuca; Heavy metals; Land snails; Middle Urals

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BIRDS; CELL PROLIFERATION; HEAVY METALS; POLLUTION;

BREEDING PERFORMANCE; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; INDIRECT EFFECTS; LAND SNAILS; MIDDLE URALS; POLLUTION GRADIENT; POLLUTION SOURCES;

MOLLUSCS;

CADMIUM; CALCIUM; COPPER; LEAD; ZINC;

ACIDIFICATION; CALCIUM; COPPER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMISSION; HEAVY METAL; NESTLING; PASSERINE; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING SUCCESS; CALCIUM DEFICIENCY; CONIFER; DECIDUOUS PLANT; EGG SHELL; FEMALE; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; FLEDGLING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; FOREST; NESTLING; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SMELTER; SNAIL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

URALS;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; PASSERIFORMES; RUSSIA; SNAILS;

EID: 84901021324     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.04.116     Document Type: Article

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