First report of chlorinated and brominated hydrocarbon pollutants in marine bird eggs from an oceanic Indian Ocean island

Environmental Research

Volumn 118, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-64

  Bouwman, Hindrik ^a   Kylin, Henrik ^b,c   Choong Kwet Yive, Nee Sun ^d   Tatayah, Vikash ^e   Løken, Katharina ^f   Utne Skaare, Janneche ^f   Polder, Anuschka ^f  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^e MAURITIAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION   (Mauritius)

^f NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Common Noddy; DDT; Eggshell thickness; Mauritius; PBDE; Rodrigues; Sooty Tern

Indexed keywords

BROMINATED HYDROCARBON; CAMPHECLOR; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CHLORPHENOTANE; FLAME RETARDANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOACCUMULATION; DDT; EGG; INDUSTRIALIZATION; NEW RECORD; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PBDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEABIRD;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; EGG; EGG SHELL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDIAN OCEAN; MARINE BIRD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEA POLLUTION; THICKNESS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EGGS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INDIAN OCEAN; MARINE BIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS;

ANOUS STOLIDUS; AVES; STERNA FUSCATA;

EID: 84866052612     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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