Derived from the 28th Poultry Science Symposium of the World's Poultry Science Association (UK), this book focuses on the current interest of the phasing out of antibiotic use in poultry and covers in-depth interactions between the bird, its diet and potential pathogens. It also…
Speleothems are carbonate cave deposits that can preserve a geochemical record of local climate as they grow. Oxygen isotope ratios and trace element concentrations in speleothem calcite provide important continental proxies of past climate change. Conventionally, geochemical an…
An analytical method that uses a minimum150 ìL of human plasma samples for the trace elements Fe, Cu, Zn, Mg and ultratrace elements Mn, Co, Cd, Pb was developed. The method was evaluated using both high resolution sector field (ICP-SFMS) and quadrupole (ICP-QMS) inductively cou…
The issue of granite petrogenesis plays a key role in our overall understanding of the growth and differentiation of continents, as well as in our ability to unravel the tectonic histories of orogenic belts. Granites are ubiquitous magmatic products found in almost all tectonic …
Pyrrhotite and pyrite commonly contain minor quantities of cobalt, nickel, arsenic and other trace elements, which reflect major effects of source lithology and fluid chemistry, and subordinate effects relating to local processes. Electron probe micro-analyses (EPMA) of silicate…
In many coastal systems, freshwater inputs influence the physical and chemical environment of estuarine organisms through changes in flow patterns, salinity, and conveyance of wastewater pollution. In areas with harvestable commercial fishery stocks, freshwater inputs may also p…
As part of the INTAS funded CLIMAN project into Holocene climatic variability and the evolution of human settlement in the Aral Sea basin, fossil diatoms obtained from Chernyshov Bay in the Aral Sea have been examined in order to reconstruct conductivity and lake level change si…
