Trace metal accumulation with age in bats: a case study on Pipistrellus kuhlii lepidus from a relatively unpolluted area
Olha Timofieieva, Anna Maria Labecka, Anton Vlaschenko, Alona Shulenko, Ryszard Laskowski · 2024
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Olha Timofieieva, Anna Maria Labecka, Anton Vlaschenko, Alona Shulenko, and Ryszard Laskowski wrote a 2024 paper on metals building up in bats as they age. Bats live long for their size, so poisons can pile up over a lifetime. The team studied a small urban bat species in a fairly clean area of Ukraine.
They aged fifty-seven bats precisely by counting rings in a tooth, then measured four metals in organs, fur, and wing skin. Cadmium, lead, and zinc rose with age, while copper did not. Even so, levels stayed below those thought harmful in this clean setting. The study sets a baseline: in polluted places, the same slow buildup could cross into danger.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Olha Timofieieva, Anna Maria Labecka, Anton Vlaschenko, Alona Shulenko, Ryszard Laskowski |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |