Monitoring of Pb exposure in waterfowl ten years after a mine spill through the use of noninvasive sampling.

Monitoring of Pb exposure in waterfowl ten years after a mine spill through the use of noninvasive sampling.

Lead exposure in waterfowl was studied using noninvasive fecal sampling in the Guadalquivir Marshes in Spain, an area affected by the 1998 Aznalcóllar mine disaster. Feces of greylag geese (Anser anser, n = 191) and purple gallinule (Porphyrio porphyrio, n = 91) were collected from three different i...

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Main Authors: Monica Martinez-Haro, Mark A Taggart, Hugues Lefranc, Rosa C Martín-Doimeadiós, Andy J Green, Rafael Mateo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3577725?pdf=render

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