title: Lead and cadmium in wild boar (Sus scrofa) in the Sierra Nevada Natural Space (southern Spain).
abstract: The aims of the present study were to investigate Pb and Cd levels in tissues of wild boar (Sus scrofa) from the Sierra Nevada Natural Space (SNNS) (southern Spain). Heavy metal concentrations in livers, kidneys and bones from 111 animals were determined by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). Bones and kidneys were the most Pb- and Cd-contaminated tissues, respectively; Cd concentrations were 5.6 times higher in kidneys than in livers. This is the first biomonitoring study of these pollutants in wild boar tissues in the SNNS, and findings indicate that this population is chronically exposed to these heavy metals. The detected Pb and Cd concentrations were lower than those found in many studies performed in Europe on the same species.
authors.affiliation: Área de Toxicología, Facultad de Veterinaria. Campus Regional de Excelencia Internacional "Campus Mare Nostrum", Universidad de Murcia, E-30071, Murcia, Spain.
authors.forename: Rocío
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mulero
authors.affiliation: Parque Nacional y Parque Natural de Sierra Nevada. Ctra, Antigua de Sierra Nevada Km7, E-18071, Pinos Genil, Granada, Spain.|Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua, Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación. Gerencia de Granada, E-18013, Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cano-Manuel
authors.affiliation: Servei d'Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge (SEFaS), Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Arián
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ráez-Bravo
authors.affiliation: Dpto. Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus las Lagunillas s/n, E-23071, Jaén, Spain.
authors.forename: Jesús M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.affiliation: Dpto. Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus las Lagunillas s/n, E-23071, Jaén, Spain.
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Espinosa
authors.affiliation: Estación Biológica de Doñana. CSIC, Avd. María Luisa s/n, E-41013, Sevilla, Spain.|IREC. CSIC, Ronda de Toledo, 12, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain.
authors.forename: Ramón
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Soriguer
authors.affiliation: Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua, Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación. Servicios Centrales, E-41013, Sevilla, Spain.
authors.forename: Paulino
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fandos
authors.affiliation: Parque Nacional y Parque Natural de Sierra Nevada. Ctra, Antigua de Sierra Nevada Km7, E-18071, Pinos Genil, Granada, Spain.|Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua, Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación. Gerencia de Granada, E-18013, Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: José E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Granados
authors.affiliation: Área de Toxicología, Facultad de Veterinaria. Campus Regional de Excelencia Internacional "Campus Mare Nostrum", Universidad de Murcia, E-30071, Murcia, Spain. diegorom@um.es.
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Romero
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D002104:Cadmium / Q000032:analysis*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D007668:Kidney / Q000737:chemistry; D007854:Lead / Q000032:analysis*; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry; D008297:Male; D009505:Nevada; D013030:Spain; D034421:Sus scrofa
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D002104:Cadmium; D007854:Lead
keywords: Cd; ICP-OES; Monitoring; National park; Pb; Wildlife