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Overview

Richard F. Shore was affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on environmental science, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences. Their work addressed various subjects, including environmental toxicology, ecotoxicology, pollution, and parasitology.

Throughout their career, Shore published extensively on topics such as mercury impact and mitigation, insect and pesticide research, toxic organic pollutants, heavy metal exposure, wildlife ecology and conservation, and bird parasitology and diseases.

  • Towards harmonisation of chemical monitoring using avian apex predators: Identification of key species for pan-European biomonitoring (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Lead contamination in raptors in Europe: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors (2020), AMBIO
  • From seeds to plasma: Confirmed exposure of multiple farmland bird species to clothianidin during sowing of winter cereals (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Interactions between Environmental Contaminants and Gastrointestinal Parasites: Novel Insights from an Integrative Approach in a Marine Predator (2020), Environmental Science & Technology

They frequently collaborated with Lee A. Walker, M. Glória Pereira, Oliver Krone, Rafael Mateo, and Antonio J. García-Fernández, indicating established cooperative networks in their research endeavors.

  • Lee A. Walker
  • M. Glória Pereira
  • Oliver Krone
  • Rafael Mateo
  • Antonio J. García-Fernández

Shore's research was published predominantly in The Science of The Total Environment, followed by journals such as Environmental Pollution, AMBIO, Environmental Science & Technology, and Ecotoxicology.

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Pollution
  • AMBIO
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Ecotoxicology

Main fields of study included Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with subfields covering health, toxicology and mutagenesis, insect science, ecology, pollution, and parasitology.

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Insect Science
  • Ecology
  • Pollution
  • Parasitology

Key topics characterized by Shore's investigations spanned mercury impact and mitigation studies, insect and pesticide research, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, toxic organic pollutants impact, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, wildlife ecology and conservation, and bird parasitology and diseases.

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Bird parasitology and diseases

Best Publications

  • Country-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees.

    B. A. Woodcock;J. M. Bullock;R. F. Shore;M. S. Heard

  • Organochlorine insecticides in substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease.

    F M Corrigan;C L Wienburg;R F Shore;S E Daniel

  • Second generation anticoagulant rodenticides in predatory birds: Probabilistic characterisation of toxic liver concentrations and implications for predatory bird populations in Canada.

    Philippe J. Thomas;Pierre Mineau;Richard F. Shore;Louise Champoux

  • Arsenic, cadmium, lead, copper and zinc in cattle from Galicia, NW Spain.

    M.López Alonso;J.L. Benedito;M. Miranda;C. Castillo

  • Ecotoxicology of wild mammals

    B. A. Rattner;R.F. Shore

  • Adverse Outcome Pathway and Risks of Anticoagulant Rodenticides to Predatory Wildlife

    Barnett A. Rattner;Rebecca S. Lazarus;John E. Elliott;Richard F. Shore

  • Diorthosubstituted Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Caudate Nucleus in Parkinson's Disease

    F.M. Corrigan;L. Murray;C.L. Wyatt;R.F. Shore

  • Risk assessment of environmental mixture effects

    Kelly Heys;Richard Francis Shore;M. Glória Pereira;Kevin Christopher Jones

  • Tracking pan-continental trends in environmental contamination using sentinel raptors-what types of samples should we use?

    S. Espín;S. Espín;A.J. García-Fernández;D. Herzke;Richard F. Shore

  • Assessing the exposure risk and impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment on individuals and ecosystems

    Kathryn E. Arnold;Alistair B. A. Boxall;A. Ross Brown;A. Ross Brown;Richard J. Cuthbert

  • An overview of existing raptor contaminant monitoring activities in Europe.

    P. Gómez-Ramírez;R.F. Shore;N.W. van Den Brink;B. Van Hattum

  • Accumulation of Anticoagulant Rodenticides in a Non-target Insectivore, the European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)

    Claire V. Dowding;Richard F. Shore;Andrew Worgan;Philip J. Baker

  • Interactions between toxic and essential trace metals in cattle from a region with low levels of pollution.

    M. López Alonso;J. L. Benedito;M. Miranda;C. Castillo

  • Influence of trophic position and foraging range on mercury levels within a seabird community

    O. R. J. Anderson;Richard A. Phillips;R.A. McDonald;Richard F. Shore

  • Toxic and trace elements in liver, kidney and meat from cattle slaughtered in Galicia (NW Spain)

    M. López Alonso;J. L. Benedito;M. Miranda;C. Castillo

  • NMR spectroscopy based metabonomic studies on the comparative biochemistry of the kidney and urine of the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus), wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus), white toothed shrew (Crocidura suaveolens) and the laboratory rat.

    J.L Griffin;L.A Walker;S Garrod;E Holmes

  • Spatial and temporal analysis of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide residues in polecats (Mustela putorius) from throughout their range in Britain, 1992-1999.

    R.F. Shore;J.D.S. Birks;A. Afsar;C.L. Wienburg

  • The ecotoxicological significance of cadmium intake and residues in terrestrial small mammals

    Richard F. Shore;Peter E.T. Douben

  • Second generation anticoagulant rodenticides in tawny owls (Strix aluco) from Great Britain

    Lee A Walker;Anthony Turk;Sara M Long;Claire L Wienburg

  • Predicting Ecotoxicological Impacts of Environmental Contaminants on Terrestrial Small Mammals

    Richard F. Shore;Peter E. T. Douben

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis Martin
Francis Martin University of Lorraine
Kevin C. Jones
Kevin C. Jones Lancaster University
José Luis Benedito
José Luis Benedito University of Santiago de Compostela
Richard F. Pywell
Richard F. Pywell Natural Environment Research Council
Tim H. Sparks
Tim H. Sparks University of Cambridge
Robbie A. McDonald
Robbie A. McDonald University of Exeter
Rafael Mateo
Rafael Mateo University of Castilla-La Mancha
Jeremy K. Nicholson
Jeremy K. Nicholson Murdoch University
Julian L. Griffin
Julian L. Griffin University of Aberdeen
Andrew A. Meharg
Andrew A. Meharg Queen's University Belfast

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