Growth and mortality of nestling great tits (Parus major) and pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) in a heavy metal pollution gradient

Oecologia ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tapio Eeva ◽  
Esa Lehikoinen
Ecotoxicology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1031-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajnalka Szentgyörgyi ◽  
Dawid Moroń ◽  
Anna Nawrocka ◽  
Adam Tofilski ◽  
Michał Woyciechowski

2012 ◽  
Vol 185 (6) ◽  
pp. 5339-5344 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Costa ◽  
T. Eeva ◽  
C. Eira ◽  
J. Vaqueiro ◽  
J. V. Vingada

2004 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrien Tersago ◽  
Wim De Coen ◽  
Jan Scheirs ◽  
Katrien Vermeulen ◽  
Ronny Blust ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva M. Temsch ◽  
Wilhelm Temsch ◽  
Luise Ehrendorfer-Schratt ◽  
Johann Greilhuber

The Death Valley at Žerjav in northern Slovenia exhibits a gradient of heavy metal pollution in the soil with severe consequences for species richness and composition along this gradient. Recently, a progressive loss of large-genome species in parallel with increasing concentrations of heavy metals has been shown. Here, we have measured the genome size of a near-complete sample of these species with flow cytometry and analysed the correlation of heavy metal pollution with the C- and Cx-values assigned to the test plots. The method of probability analysis was a hypergeometric distribution method. We confirm, on a different methodological basis than previously, that along the pollution gradient, species with high C- and Cx-values are increasingly underrepresented. This lends support to the “large genome constraint hypothesis”, predicting that plants with large genomes are at a disadvantage under all aspects of evolution, ecology, and phenotype, because junk DNA imposes a load to the organism.


2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 1140-1145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Jans Sens ◽  
Tom Dauwe ◽  
Rianne Pinxten ◽  
Marcel Eens

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