WP5 Wildlife Ecotoxicology
203 Oregon Ballroom
1:20 PM - 4:40 PM, Wednesday

1:20 PM -

584 :: Age Specific Differences and Reversibility of Ammonium Perchlorate (AP) Effects on Avian Thyroid Function. McNabb, F. M.1, Doernte, A. 1, Rainey, S. 1, Snyder, S.1, Burnette, S. 1, Queral, L.1, 1 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

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1:40 PM -

585 :: Changes in growth and thyroid function of American kestrels exposed to environmentally-relevant polybrominated diphenyl ethers. Fernie, Kim1, Mayne, Greg1, Shutt, J2, Letcher, Robert3, Drouillard, Ken3, 1 Canadian Wildlife Service, Burlington, Ontario, Canada2 National Wildlife Research Centre, Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada3 Great Lakes Institute of Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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2:00 PM -

586 :: Effects of lead exposure to southern leopard frogs (Rana sphenocephala) - a field study. Krest, S1, Sparling, D2, Pinkney, A1, Turley, S3, Hoffman, D4, 1 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Annapolis, MD, USA2 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA3 University of Maryland, Wye Research and Education Center, Queenstown, MD, USA4 U.S. Geological Survey, Laurel, MD

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2:20 PM -

587A :: Contaminants in American woodcock collected in Connecticut. Hiller, B.1, Barclay, J.1, 1 Wildlife Conservation Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

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3:20 PM -

588 :: Possible effects of food choice on contaminant levels in badgers from floodplains of the River Meuse. VandenBrink, N.W.1, VanderVeen, J.C.M.2, Boudewijn, T.J.3, DeJonge, J.4, 1 Alterra, WageningenUR, Wageningen, The Netherlands2 Ministry of Transport , Public Work and Watermanagement, Directorate Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands3 Bureau Waardenburg, Culemborg, The Netherlands4 RIZA, Lelystad, The Netherlands

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589 :: Non-lethal monitoring of trace elements in bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus. Bryan, C1, 2, Christopher, S2, Hohn, A3, Wells, R4, 1 The Graduate Program in Marine Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA2 National Institute of Standards and Technology, Charleston, South Carolina, USA3 NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC, Beaufort, North Carolina, USA4 Chicago Zoological Society c/o Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida, USA

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590 :: Tracing pathways of energy and contaminant transfer to wildlife. Hebert, C1, Hobson, K2, Arts, M3, Weseloh, D4, 1 Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa, ON, Canada2 Canadian Wildlife Service, Saskatoon, SK, Canada3 National Water Research Institute, Burlington, ON, Canada4 Canadian Wildlife Service, Downsview, ON, Canada

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591 :: Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and organochlorine pesticides in salmon-eating grizzly bears of British Columbia. Christensen, J1, 2, MacDuffee, M2, Whiticar, M2, Ross, P1, 1 Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada2 University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

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