Persistent pollutants in Northern Gannet Morus bassanus eggs in Ireland: Levels and colony differences.
Gannet
Metals
POPs
Seabird eggs
Stable isotope ratio analysis
Journal
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
ISSN: 1873-6424
Titre abrégé: Environ Pollut
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8804476
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Jan 2021
01 Jan 2021
Historique:
received:
28
05
2020
revised:
22
09
2020
accepted:
23
09
2020
pubmed:
19
10
2020
medline:
19
12
2020
entrez:
18
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Seabird eggs are considered a favourable matrix for monitoring marine pollutants and are widely used as higher trophic level indicators. Persistent organic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and other organochlorine compounds (OCs) as well as metals have been shown to have deleterious impacts on seabirds. The Northern Gannet Morus bassanus is an avian sentinel; the largest breeding seabird in Ireland and an obligate piscivore. Gannet eggs were collected from two island colonies off the east coast of Ireland in locations with divergent history of industrialisation. Contaminant levels were measured and differences in concentrations between colonies compared. Stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ
Identifiants
pubmed: 33070066
pii: S0269-7491(20)36412-5
doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115723
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Environmental Pollutants
0
Polychlorinated Biphenyls
DFC2HB4I0K
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
115723Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.