An assessment of the risks posed by human pharmaceuticals in the environment to wild birds
When a pharmaceutical is ingested, a proportion of it is excreted unchanged, ending up in sewage. Birds foraging at sewage treatment works can take up these pharmaceuticals by ingesting invertebrates living in the sewage. There is concern that low concentrations of human pharmaceuticals can alter be...
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University of York
2014
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.634369 |