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Deborah J. Pain is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and primarily works in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Nutrition and Dietetics, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their academic contributions focus on topics such as Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity, Heavy metals in environment, Trace Elements in Health, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Avian ecology and behavior, and Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques.

Key recent publications by Deborah J. Pain include the following:

  • How contaminated with ammunition-derived lead is meat from European small game animals? Assessing and reducing risks to human health, 2022, AMBIO
  • The impact of lead poisoning from ammunition sources on raptor populations in Europe, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Setting maximum levels for lead in game meat in EC regulations: An adjunct to replacement of lead ammunition, 2020, AMBIO
  • Groundwater extraction poses extreme threat to Doñana World Heritage Site, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Concentration and origin of lead (Pb) in liver and bone of Eurasian buzzards (Buteo buteo) in the United Kingdom, 2020, Environmental Pollution

The research venues where Deborah J. Pain publishes most frequently include:

  • Conservation Evidence Journal
  • AMBIO
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Pollution
  • PLoS ONE

Deborah collaborates frequently with several researchers, among them:

  • Rhys E. Green
  • Mark A. Taggart
  • Ruth Cromie
  • Noel A. Clark
  • Niels Kanstrup

Best Publications

  • Long-term population declines in Afro-Palearctic migrant birds

    Fiona J. Sanderson;Paul F. Donald;Deborah J. Pain;Ian J. Burfield

  • Diclofenac poisoning as a cause of vulture population declines across the Indian subcontinent

    Rhys E. Green;Rhys E. Green;Ian Newton;Susanne Shultz;Susanne Shultz;Andrew A. Cunningham

  • The decline of Afro-Palaearctic migrants and an assessment of potential causes

    Juliet A. Vickery;Steven R. Ewing;Ken W. Smith;Deborah J. Pain

  • A review of lead poisoning from ammunition sources in terrestrial birds

    Ian J. Fisher;Deborah J. Pain;Vernon G. Thomas

  • Diclofenac poisoning is widespread in declining vulture populations across the Indian subcontinent.

    Susanne Shultz;Susanne Shultz;Hem Sagar Baral;Sheonaidh Charman;Andrew A. Cunningham

  • Catastrophic collapse of Indian white-backed Gyps bengalensis and long-billed Gyps indicus vulture populations

    V. Prakash;D.J. Pain;A.A. Cunningham;P.F. Donald

  • The Common Agricultural Policy, EU enlargement and the conservation of Europe's farmland birds

    Paul F. Donald;Giovanna Pisano;Matthew D. Rayment;Deborah J. Pain

  • Projected impacts of climate change on a continent-wide protected area network

    David G. Hole;David G. Hole;Stephen G. Willis;Deborah J. Pain;Lincoln D. Fishpool

  • Toxicity of diclofenac to Gyps vultures.

    Gerry E Swan;Richard Cuthbert;Miguel Quevedo;Rhys E Green;Rhys E Green

  • Removing the Threat of Diclofenac to Critically Endangered Asian Vultures

    Gerry Swan;Vinasan Naidoo;Richard Cuthbert;Rhys E Green;Rhys E Green

  • Lead in the environment

    Oliver H. Pattee;Deborah J. Pain

  • Effects of lead from ammunition on birds and other wildlife: A review and update.

    Deborah J. Pain;Rafael Mateo;Rhys E. Green

  • Causes and Effects of Temporospatial Declines of Gyps Vultures in Asia

    D. J. Pain;A. A. Cunningham;P. F. Donald;J. W. Duckworth

  • RECENT CHANGES IN POPULA TIONS OF RESIDENT GYPS VULTURES IN INDIA 1

    Prakash;R E Green;D J Pain;S P Ranade

  • NSAIDs and scavenging birds: potential impacts beyond Asia's critically endangered vultures

    Richard Cuthbert;Jemima Parry-Jones;Rhys E Green;Rhys E Green;Deborah J Pain

  • Potential Hazard to Human Health from Exposure to Fragments of Lead Bullets and Shot in the Tissues of Game Animals

    Deborah J. Pain;Ruth L. Cromie;Julia Newth;Martin J. Brown

  • The race to prevent the extinction of South Asian vultures

    Deborah J. Pain;Christopher G. R. Bowden;Andrew A. Cunningham;Richard Cuthbert

  • The Doñana ecological disaster: Contamination of a world heritage estuarine marsh ecosystem with acidified pyrite mine waste

    D.J Pain;A Sánchez;A.A Meharg

  • A Global Update of Lead Poisoning in Terrestrial Birds from Ammunition Sources

    Deborah Pain

  • Rapid population declines of Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) and red‐headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus) in India

    R. Cuthbert;R. E. Green;R. E. Green;S. Ranade;S. Saravanan

Frequent Co-Authors

Rhys E. Green
Rhys E. Green University of Cambridge
Mark A. Taggart
Mark A. Taggart University of the Highlands and Islands
Andrew A. Meharg
Andrew A. Meharg Queen's University Belfast
Andrew A. Cunningham
Andrew A. Cunningham Zoological Society of London
Ken Norris
Ken Norris Zoological Society of London
Paul F. Donald
Paul F. Donald University of Cambridge
Susanne Shultz
Susanne Shultz University of Manchester
Yadvendradev V. Jhala
Yadvendradev V. Jhala Wildlife Institute of India
Rafael Mateo
Rafael Mateo University of Castilla-La Mancha
Andrea Raab
Andrea Raab International Committee of the Red Cross

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