Condition, reproduction and survival of barn swallows from Chernobyl

• Title: Condition, reproduction and survival of barn swallows from Chernobyl

Author: A. P. MØLLER, T. A. MOUSSEAU, G. MILINEVSKY, A. PEKLO, E. PYSANETS and T. SZÉP

Reference: Journal of Animal Ecology (2005)74, 1102–1111

doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2005.01009.x

Keywords: antioxidants, body condition, clutch size, hatching success, Hirundo rustica, nonbreeding, population change, survival.

Abstract: The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 released 80 petabecquerel of radioactive caesium, strontium, plutonium and other radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere, polluting 200 000 km2 of land in Europe.

URL: http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/chernobyl/papers/Moller_et_al%20_JAE_2005.pdf