Associations between persistent organic pollutants and vitamin status in Brünnich's guillemot and common eider hatchlings

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 381, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 134-145

  Murvoll, Kari Mette ^a   Skaare, Janneche Utne ^b,c   Jensen, Henrik ^a   Jenssen, Bjorn Munro ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Biomonitoring; Food chain; Seabirds; Svalbard; Vitamins

Indexed keywords

ETHERS; FOOD PRODUCTS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; VITAMINS;

BIOMONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; SEABIRDS; SVALBARD;

BIRDS;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; FLAME RETARDANT; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; OXYCHLORDANE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RETINOL PALMITATE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; HATCHING; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEABIRD; VITAMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATED ANIMAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCK; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD WEB; HATCHLING; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEON; POLLUTANT; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANSERIFORMES; ARCTIC REGIONS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SVALBARD; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN E; YOLK SAC;

ARCTIC; KONGSFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ALCIDAE; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 34249700180     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.03.037     Document Type: Article

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