HEAVY METALS IN SOME SPECIES OF WATERFOWL OF NORTHERN ITALY

@inproceedings{Carpen1995HEAVYMI,
  title={HEAVY METALS IN SOME SPECIES OF WATERFOWL OF NORTHERN ITALY},
  author={Emilio Carpen{\'e} and Rossella Serra and Gloria Isani},
  booktitle={Journal of wildlife diseases},
  year={1995}
}
Concentrations of heavy metals (zinc, copper, cadmium, and iron) were measured in several tissues (brain, gizzard, leg-muscle, heart, breast-muscle, intestine, liver and kidney) of moorhens (Gallinula chloropus), black-headed gulls (Larus ridibundus), and coots (Fulica atra) collected between autumn 1985 and spring 1989 in northern Italy. Cadmium concentrations in the liver and kidney of water-rails (Rallus aquaticus) and in five species of Anatidae collected also were measured. High mean (±SD… 
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