Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2000

Seiten: 1-6

Zeitschrift: Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Bandnummer: 39

Heftnummer: 1

ISSN: 0090-4341

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002440010072

Verlag: Springer

Abstract: 

Fluoride and lead concentrations were analyzed in antlers of adult roe bucks (Capreolus capreolus)
collected between 1932 and 1998 in a forest area of 800 ha, that
directly borders on the eastern suburbs of Cologne (Germany). Values
ranged between 158 and 3,713 mg/kg dry weight for fluoride and from 0.4
to 12.0 mg/kg dry weight for lead, and varied significantly between
periods (1932–49, 1950–59, 1960–69, 1970–79, 1980–89, 1990–98). Antler
bone levels of both contaminants decreased markedly during the 1980s and
1990s. As a consequence, mean fluoride and lead concentrations in
antlers collected in the 1990s were significantly lower than those from
all preceding periods. These findings indicate a pronounced decline in
fluoride and lead pollution of the study area, which is attributed to
reduced emissions from stationary sources and, in the case of lead, to
the introduction of unleaded gasoline and the subsequent phasing out of
leaded gasoline in Germany. Because antlers are replaced annually, grow
during a seasonally fixed period of some months, and are regularly
collected and kept by hunters, they are useful monitoring units for
recording past and present environmental pollution by “bone-seeking”
pollutants in a cost-effective way. Due to its relative abundance and
its rather narrow home range, the roe deer is well suited as a
monitoring species for assessing changes in ambient contaminant levels
on a local scale.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Kierdorf, H. and Kierdorf, U. (2000) Roe Deer Antlers as Monitoring Units for Assessing Temporal Changes in Environmental Pollution by Fluoride and Lead in a German Forest Area over a 67-Year Period, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 39(1), pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002440010072

APA-Zitierstil: Kierdorf, H., & Kierdorf, U. (2000). Roe Deer Antlers as Monitoring Units for Assessing Temporal Changes in Environmental Pollution by Fluoride and Lead in a German Forest Area over a 67-Year Period. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 39(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002440010072