Tracking pan-continental trends in environmental contamination using sentinel raptors—what types of samples should we use?

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 777-801

  Espin S ^a,b   Garcia Fernandez A J ^a   Herzke, D ^c   Shore, R F ^d   van Hattum, B ^e,p   Martinez Lopez E ^a   Coeurdassier, M ^f   Eulaers, I ^g,n   Fritsch, C ^f   Gomez Ramirez P ^a   Jaspers, V L B ^g,h   Krone, O ⁱ   Duke, G ^j   Helander, B ^k   Mateo, R ^l   Movalli, P ^m   Sonne, C ⁿ   van den Brink, N W ^o  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f University of Franche Comté   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^h NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

ⁱ LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^k SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^l INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^m NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁿ AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^o WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^p DELTARES   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Bird of prey; Contaminant; Matrix; Monitoring; Sample type

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EUROPEAN UNION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; RAPTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; EGG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; FEATHER; INDICATOR ORGANISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPTOR; TREND STUDY; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN UNION; METABOLISM; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EUROPE;

RAPTORES;

POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEATHERS; RAPTORS;

EID: 84960114894     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: 15733017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-016-1636-8     Document Type: Article

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