Lead ingestion as a potential contributing factor to the decline in vulture populations in southern Africa

Environmental Research

Volumn 152, Issue , 2017, Pages 150-156

  Naidoo, V ^a   Wolter, K ^b   Botha, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b VulPro   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African White backed vulture; Bearded vulture; Griffon vulture; Lead toxicity; Southern Africa; Whole blood

Indexed keywords

LEAD; POLLUTANT;

BLOOD; CAPTIVITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LEAD; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RAPTOR; TOXICITY TEST;

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GYPAETUS BARBATUS; GYPS AFRICANUS; GYPS COPROTHERES; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; VULTURE (BIRD); ANIMAL; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FALCONIFORMES; METABOLISM; MINING; POLLUTANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

NAMIBIA; SOUTH AFRICA;

AVES; GYPAETUS BARBATUS; GYPS AFRICANUS; GYPS COPROTHERES;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FALCONIFORMES; LEAD; MINING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84992476921     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.10.013     Document Type: Article

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