Carmela Musto, Jacopo Cerri, Dario Capizzi, Maria Cristina Fontana, Silva Rubini, Giuseppe Merialdi, Duccio Berzi, Francesca Ciuti, Annalisa Santi, Arianna Rossi, Filippo Barsi, Luca Gelmini, Laura Fiorentini, Giovanni Pupillo, Camilla Torreggiani, Alessandro Bianchi, Alessandra Gazzola, Paola Prati, Giovanni Sala, Marco Apollonio, Mauro Delogu, Alberto Biancardi, Laura Uboldi, Alessandro Moretti, Chiara Garbarino
Second-generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (ARs) can be critical for carnivores, due to their widespread use and impacts. However, although many studies explored the impacts of ARs on small and mesocarnivores, none assessed the extent to which they could contaminate large carnivores in anthropized landscapes. We filled this gap by exploring spatiotemporal trends in grey wolf (Canis lupus) exposure to ARs in central and northern Italy, by subjecting a large sample of dead wolves (n = 186) to the LC-MS/MS method...
January 15, 2024: Science of the Total Environment