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Study site locations: South Dakota - Arsenic concentrations in house wrens

Arsenic was detected in house wren liver tissue and house wren diet samples from Whitewood Creek, South Dakota, but not in those same tissues from a reference areas in Wyoming. The arsenic concentrations were extraordinarily high and the source was mine tailings from gold mines in nearby mountains.

Arsenic concentrations in house wrens graph

Custer, T. W., C. M. Custer, S. Larson, and K. K. Dickerson. 2002. Arsenic concentrations in house wrens from Whitewood Creek, South Dakota. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 68:517-524.

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