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Breeding songbird tissue analysis and metal concentrations in tissues, soil and invertebrates collected near nesting sites within the Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District, 2016-19

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Publication Date
Start Date
2016
End Date
2019

Citation

Cleveland, D.M., Rattner, B.A., Karouna-Renier, N.K. and Lankton, J.S. 2023, Breeding songbird tissue analysis and metal concentrations in tissues, soil and invertebrates collected near nesting sites within the Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District, 2016-19: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RV1D60.

Summary

This dataset provides results for the following: (1) metals concentrations in soils surrounding breeding song bird nest sites; (2) metals concentrations in invertebrates (earthworm and grub composites) collected near nest sites; (3) metals concentrations and delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) activity in avian blood samples; and (4) metals concentrations, indicators of oxidative stress and DNA damage, and histopathology in liver and/or kidney tissues collected from breeding song birds.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Danielle M Cleveland
Process Contact :
Danielle M Cleveland, Barnett A Rattner, Natalie K Karouna, Julia S Lankton
Originator :
Danielle M Cleveland, Barnett A Rattner, Natalie K Karouna, Julia S Lankton
Metadata Contact :
CERC Data Managers
Data Owner :
Columbia Environmental Research Center
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Columbia Environmental Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Breeding songbird tissue analysis and metal concentrations in tissues oil and invertebrates.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		97.25 KB application/fgdc+xml
ALAD_in_blood.txt 3.33 KB text/plain
Biomarkers_in_livers.txt 36.58 KB text/plain
Elements_avian_tissue_soil_invertebrates.txt 94.2 KB text/plain
Histopathology_livers_kidneys.txt 72.44 KB text/plain
Sampling_sites.txt 438 Bytes text/plain

Purpose

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, along with the U.S. Forest Service, and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, are pursuing damage assessments under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) program at several locations within the Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District. Lead mining occurred in this region for nearly 300 years and metal residues from smelting, tailings, and chat piles have contaminated soil and water. As part of the ongoing damage assessment work, this study expanded upon an earlier investigation by Beyer and others (2013), which identified adverse effects in ground feeding songbirds from soil-borne lead associated with mining in the Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District. The present study evaluated nesting songbirds to determine whether exposure to lead-contaminated soil adversely affected molecular, cellular, physiological or reproductive function.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9RV1D60

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