Persistent organic pollutants and mercury in dead and dying glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) at Bjørnøya (Svalbard)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 6009-6016

  Sagerup, Kjetil ^a   Helgason, Lisa B ^b   Polder, Anuschka ^c   Strøm, Hallvard ^b   Josefsen, Terje D ^d   Skåre, Janneche U ^c,d   Gabrielsen, Geir W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Glaucous gull; Larus hyperboreus; Lethal levels?; PBDE; PCB

Indexed keywords

GLAUCOUS GULL; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; LETHAL LEVELS?; PBDE; PCB;

ETHERS; HALOGENATION; LIVER; MERCURY (METAL); OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PRINTED CIRCUITS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; MERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BODY CONDITION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PBDE; PCB; SEABIRD; SUBLETHAL EFFECT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN TISSUE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HALOGENATION; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HELMINTHS; INTESTINES; MERCURY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; BJORNOYA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

AVES; LARUS HYPERBOREUS;

EID: 70349445272     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.08.020     Document Type: Article

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