Geographic and trophic patterns of OCs in pelagic seabirds from the NE Atlantic and the Mediterranean: A multi-species/multi-locality approach

Chemosphere

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 432-440

  Roscales, Jose L ^a,b   González Solís, Jacob ^a   Muñoz Arnanz, Juan ^b   Jiménez, Begoña ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Marine pollution; Nitrogen stable isotopes; Organochlorinated compounds; Pollution monitoring; Procellariiformes; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SURFACE WATERS;

NITROGEN STABLE ISOTOPE; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; ORGANOCHLORINATED COMPOUNDS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION MONITORING; PROCELLARIIFORMES; STABLE NITROGEN ISOTOPE; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

MARINE POLLUTION;

CHLORPHENOTANE; NITROGEN 15; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BREEDING SITE; DDT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEABIRD; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC STATUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BLOOD LEVEL; BREEDING; CALONECTRIS BOREALIS; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA; CALONECTRIS EDWARDSII; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; PUFFINUS BAROLI; PUFFINUS BOYDI; PUFFINUS MAURETANICUS; PUFFINUS YELKOUAN; SEABIRD; SQUID; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CEPHALOPODA; PROCELLARIIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80555150674     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.07.070     Document Type: Article

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