High levels of organochlorines may affect hatching sex ratio and hatchling body mass in arctic glaucous gulls

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 289-296

  Erikstad, Kjell Einar ^a   Moum, Truls ^b   Bustnes, Jan O ^a   Reiertsen, Tone K ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Glaucous gull; Hatchling body mass; Organochlorines; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOACCUMULATION; BODY CONDITION; BODY MASS; DIMORPHISM; EGG SIZE; EMBRYO; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FOOD WEB; HATCHING; HORMONE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MORTALITY; OCEANIC CURRENT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PREDATOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SEX RATIO; STEROID;

ARCTIC; BJORNOYA; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

LARUS HYPERBOREUS;

EID: 78951495961     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01771.x     Document Type: Article

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