Organochlorines in Antarctic and Arctic avian top predators: A comparison between the south polar skua and two species of northern hemisphere gulls

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2826-2831

  Bustnes, Jan O ^a,b   Tveraa, Torkild ^a   Henden, John A ^a   Varpe, Øystein ^b   Janssen, Kirstin ^a   Skaare, Janneche U ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; LIPIDS; OCEAN HABITATS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SAMPLING;

GULLS; HEXACHLOROBENZENE (HCB); MIREX; ORGANOCHLORINES (OC); POLAR SKUAS;

MARINE POLLUTION;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LIPID; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; OXYCHLORDANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIODIVERSITY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; LIPIDS; MARINE POLLUTION; OCEAN HABITATS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SAMPLING;

BLOOD; BREEDING; DDE; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PREDATOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; BODY WEIGHT; CATHARACTA MACCORMICKI; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; FOWL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; LARUS MARINUS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE GULL; PREDATOR; SOUTH POLAR SKUA; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LIPIDS; MALE; NORWAY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CATHARACTA; CATHARACTA MACCORMICKI; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; LARUS MARINUS;

EID: 33646048053     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es051920q     Document Type: Article

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