Heavy metal contamination status of Japanese cranes (Grus japonensis) in east Hokkaido, Japan - Extensive mercury pollution

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 307-312

  Teraoka, Hiroki ^a   Kumagai, Yoshihiro ^a   Iwai, Hisae ^a   Haraguchi, Kensaku ^b   Ohba, Takashi ^c   Nakai, Kunihiko ^c   Satoh, Hiroshi ^c   Sakamoto, Mineshi ^d   Momose, Kunikazu ^e,f   Masatomi, Hiroyuki ^f,g   Hiraga, Takeo ^a  

^a RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^e YAMASHINA INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Japan)

^f Tancho Protection Group   (Japan)

^g SENSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Gruinae; Japanese crane; Lead; Mercury

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MERCURY (METAL); MUSCLE; WETLANDS;

BRACKISH WETLANDS; JAPANESE CRANES; MERCURY POLLUTION;

HEAVY METALS;

CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HEAVY METAL; MERCURY (ELEMENT); TOXICITY; WADER; WETLAND;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRUS JAPONENSIS; JAPAN; LEAD POISONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; MERCURY; METALS, HEAVY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMUR RIVER; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; KOREA;

GRUIDAE; GRUS JAPONENSIS;

EID: 33846696148     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/05-623R.1     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Koller LD. 1980. Immunotoxicology of heavy metals. Int J Immunopharmacol 2:269-279.
2. Ochiai K, Jin K, Itakura C, Goryo M, Yamashita K, Mizuno N, Fujinaga T, Tsuzuki T. 1992. Pathological study of lead poisoning in whooper swans (Cygnus cygnus) in Japan. Avian Dis 36:313-323.
3. Kim EY, Goto R, Iwata H, Masuda Y, Tanabe S, Fujita S. 1999. Preliminary survey of lead poisoning of steler's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) and white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) in Hokkaido, Japan. Environ Toxicol Chem 18:448-451.
4. Wayland M, Bollinger T. 1999. Lead exposure and poisoning in bald eagles and golden eagles in the Canadian prairie provinces. Environ Pollut 104:341-350.
5. Burger J, Gochfeld M. 1997. Risk, mercury levels, and birds: Relating adverse laboratory effects to field biomonitoring. Environ Res 75:160-172.
6. Wren CD, Harris S, Harttrup N. 1995. Ecotoxicology of mercury and cadmium. In Hoffman DJ, Rattner BA, Burton GA Jr, Cairns J Jr, eds, Handbook of Ecotoxicology. CRC, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp 392-423.
7. Nordberg GF, Goyer RA, Clarkson TW. 1985. Impact of effects of acid precipitation on toxicity of metals. Environ Health Perspect 63:169-180.
8. Masatomi H. 2000. The All of Tancho. Hokkaido Shimbun, Sapporo, Japan (in Japanese).
9. Masatomi H, Momose K, Koga K, Matsumoto F, Kurosawa N, Inoue M. Population of the Tancho Grus japonensis wintering in eastern Hokkaido in 2001 and 2002. Bull Akan Int Crane Cen 3:3-28(in Japanese with English summary).
10. Burger J, Gochfeld M. 1999. Heavy metals in Franklin's gull tissues: Age and tissue differences. Environ Toxicol Chem 18:673-678.
11. Masatomi H, Kitagawa T. 1975. Bionomics and sociology of tancho or the Japanese Cranes, Grus japonensis, II. Ethogram. J Fac Sci Hokkaido Univ Ser VI, Zool 19:834-878.
12. Suzuki T, Yamamoto R. 1982. Organic mercury levels in human hair with and without storage for eleven years. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 28:186-188.
13. Donaldson GM, Braune BM. 1999. Sex-related levels of selenium, heavy metals, and organochlorine compounds in American white pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhyncos). Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 37:110-114.
14. Lewis JC, Drewien RC, Kuty E, Sancehz C Jr. 1992. Contaminants in habitat, tissues, and eggs of whooping cranes. Proceedings, Sixth North American Crane Workshop. North American Crane Working Group, Grand Island, NE, USA, October 3-5, 1991, pp 159-165.
15. Wolfe MF, Schwarzbach S, Sulaiman RA. 1998. Effects of mercury on wildlife: A comprehensive review. Environ Toxicol Chem 17:146-160.
16. Monteiro LR, Furness RW. 1995. Seabirds as monitors of mercury in the marine environment. Water Air Soil Pollut 80:851-870.
17. Ikemoto T, Kunito T, Tanaka H, Baba N, Miyazaki N, Tanabe S. 2004. Detoxification mechanism of heavy metals in marine mammals and seabirds: Interaction of selenium with mercury, silver, copper, zinc, and cadmium in liver. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 47:402-413.
18. Massanyi P, Tataruch F, Slameka J, Toman R, Jurik R. 2003. Accumulation of lead, cadmium, and mercury in liver and kidney of the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) in relation to the season, age, and sex in the West Slovakian Lowland. J Environ Sci Health Part A Toxic-Hazard Subst Environ Eng 38:1299-1309.
19. Watanabe I, Tanabe S, Amano M, Miyazaki N, Petrov EA, Tatsukawa R. 1998. Age-dependent accumulation of heavy metals in Baikal seal (Phoca sibirica) from the Lake Baikal. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 35:518-526.
20. Braune BM, Gaskin PE. 1987. A mercury budget for the Bonaparte's gull during autumn molt. Ornis Scand 18:244-250.
21. Iwata H, Watanabe M, Kim E-Y, Gotoh R, Yasunaga G, Tanabe S, Masuda Y, Fujita S. 2000. Contamination by chlorinated hydrocarbons and white-tailed sea eagle from Hokkaido, Japan. Proceedings, First Symposium on Steller's and White-tailed Sea Eagles in East Asia, Wild Bird Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, February 9-15, pp 91-106.
22. Scheuhammer AM. 1987. The chronic toxicity of aluminium, cadmium, mercury, and lead in birds: A review. Environ Pollut 46:263-295.
23. White DH, Finley MT, Ferrell JF. 1978. Histopathologic effects of dietary cadmium on kidneys and testes of mallard ducks. J Toxicol Environ Health 4:551-558.
24. Friend M. 1985. Interpretation of criteria commonly used to determine lead poisoning problem areas. Leaflet 2. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fish and Wildlife, Washington, DC, pp 1-4.
25. De Francisco N, Ruiz Troya JD, Aguera EI. 2003. Lead and lead toxicity in domestic and free living birds. Avian Pathol 32:3-13.
26. Snyder SB, Richard MJ, Thilsted JP, Drewien RC. 1992. Lead poisoning in a whooping crane. Technical Report 12. Proceedings, 1988 North American Crane Workshop, Nongame Wildlife Program, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, FL, USA, February 22-24, 1988, pp 207-210.
27. Kim EY, Saeki K, Tanabe S, Tanaka H, Tatsukawa R. 1996. Specific accumulation of mercury and selenium in seabirds. Environ Pollut 94:261-265.
28. Kim EY, Goto R, Tanabe S, Tanaka H, Tatsukawa R. 1998. Distribution of 14 elements in tissues and organs of oceanic seabirds. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 35:638-645.
29. Henriksson K, Karppanen E, Helminen M. 1966. High residue of mercury in Finnish white-tailed eagles. Ornis Fenn 43:38-45.
30. Koeman JH, Vink JAJ, de Goeij JJM. 1969. Causes of mortality in birds of prey and owls in the Netherlands in the winter of 1968-1969. Ardea 57:67-76.
31. Thompson RD. 1996. Mercury in birds and terrestrial mammals. In Beyer WN, Heinz GH, Redmon-Norwood AW, eds, Environmental Contaminants in Wildlife: Interpreting Tissue Concentration. Lewis, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp 341-356.
32. Spalding MG, Bjork RD, Powell GVN, Sundlof SF. 1994. Mercury and cause of death in great white herons. J Wildl Manag 58:735-739.
33. Koller LD. 1975. Methylmercury: Effect on oncogenic and non-oncogenic viruses in mice. Am J Vet Res 36:1501-1504.
34. Nakatsuru S, Oohashi J, Nozaki H, Nakada S, Imura N. 1985. Effect of mercurials on lymphocyte functions in vitro. Toxicology 36:297-305.
35. Ilback NG. 1991. Effects on methyl mercury exposure on spleen and blood natural killer (NK) cell activity in the mouse. Toxicology 67:117-124.
36. Ware RA, Burkholder PM, Chang LW. 1975. Ultrastructural changes in renal proximal tubules after chronic organic and inorganic mercury intoxication. Environ Res 10:121-140.
37. Heinz G. 1974. Effects of low dietary levels of methylmercury on mallard reproduction. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 11:386-392.