Publications by authors named "Yeraldi Loera"
Heavy Metal Contamination in Birds from Protected Regions in the Amazon.
Environ Toxicol Chem
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- The rise in crude oil and gold extraction has led to increased heavy metal contamination in the environment, but research on its impact on wildlife is still limited, especially in biodiverse regions.
- A study of wedge-billed woodcreepers in the Amazon revealed elevated heavy metal levels in their feathers near extraction sites, as well as unexpected contamination levels in more remote areas.
- These findings emphasize the need to investigate the ecological and biological effects of heavy metal exposure on wildlife, even in areas thought to be unaffected by human activity, using data from native bird populations as indicators.
Considerations of the impact climate change has on reptiles are typically focused on habitat change or loss, range shifts and skewed sex ratios in species with temperature-dependent sex determination. Here, we show that incubation temperature alters stripe number and head colouration of hatchling American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). Animals incubated at higher temperatures (33.
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