Disrupted bone metabolism in contaminant-exposed white storks (Ciconia ciconia) in southwestern Spain
| Autor: | Raquel Baos, Roger Jovani, Gary R. Bortolotti, José Luis Tella, Walter E. Hoffmann, Judit E. G. Smits |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Hazardous Waste
Ciconia Bone metabolism Skeletal deformity Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Industrial Waste Mine tailings spill Tarsus Animal Toxicology Bone and Bones Mining Nesting Behavior Bone remodeling Birds Disasters Animal science biology.animal Animals White stork Tibia biology Ecology Phosphorus Environmental Exposure General Medicine Alkaline Phosphatase biology.organism_classification Pollution Tailings White (mutation) Normal bone Spain Calcium Aznalcóllar Biomarkers Water Pollutants Chemical Lower Extremity Deformities Congenital |
| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname |
| ISSN: | 0269-7491 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.04.032 |
| Popis: | In 1998, the Aznalco´ llar mine tailings dyke in southwestern Spain broke, flooding the Agrio-Guadiamar river system with acid tailings up to the borders of one of the largest breeding colonies of white storks in the western Palearctic, Dehesa de Abajo. Over the following years, a high proportion of nestlings developed leg defects not seen before the spill, prompting this study. Nestlings with deformed legs had significantly lower plasma phosphorous (P) and higher Ca:P ratios than non-deformed cohorts in the first two years, but in the third year, when more, younger birds were studied, plasma P ranged from much higher to much lower in the affected colony compared with reference birds. Coefficients of variation for phosphorous were 19% and 60%, in reference and contaminated colonies, respectively. Storks from the contaminated colony were unable to control P levels and Ca:P ratios within the narrow limits necessary for normal bone development. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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