DDE in Eggs of the Peregrine Falcon
Open Access
- 1 September 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Bird Study
- Vol. 23 (3) , 181-186
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657609476499
Abstract
A new technique for extracting organochlorines from old eggshells has demonstrated that DDE was present in Peregrine eggs as early as 1947 when eggshell thinning was first observed.Keywords
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