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Briefing paper summarizes Year 4 (2008) progress on a South River bird study led by Dan Cristol (College of William & Mary). Objectives included lifetime reproductive success and sublethal-effects studies in swallows, source-tracing of dietary mercury via stable isotopes and PCR of spider gut contents, and a spatial foraging–mercury exposure model. Progress, sample analyses, and dissemination activities are reported.

File Type: pdf
Categories: Technical Documents
Tags: College of William & Mary, dan-cristol, floodplain, foraging model, mercury, PCR gut analysis, south-river, stable isotopes, tree swallows, wolf spiders
Publication Date : 1905-06-30
Type : Progress Report
Review Notes : PDF text identifies the document as a 2008 (Year 4) briefing paper and names Dan Cristol and institution. The WordPress filename suggests October 2008, but the PDF itself does not provide an explicit month or day, so only the year is used for document_date.

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