Can starling eggs be useful as a biomonitoring tool to study organohalogenated contaminants on a worldwide scale?

Environment International

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 141-149

  Eens, Marcel ^a   Jaspers, Veerle L B ^a   Van den Steen, Evi ^a   Bateson, Melissa ^b   Carere, Claudio ^c   Clergeau, Philippe ^d   Costantini, David ^e   Dolenec, Zdravko ^f   Elliott, John E ^g   Flux, John ^h   Gwinner, Helga ⁱ   Halbrook, Richard S ^j   Heeb, Philipp ^k   Mazgajski, Tomasz D ^l   Moksnes, Arne ^m   Polo, Vicente ⁿ   Soler, Juan José ^o   Sinclair, Ron ^p   Veiga, José P ^q   Williams, Tony D ^r   Covaci, Adrian ^a   Pinxten, Rianne ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Università degli Studi della Tuscia Borgo Le Saline   (Italy)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^g ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^h Ecological Research Associates NZ   (New Zealand)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^j SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k CNRS   (France)

^l MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^m NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

ⁿ UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^o DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^p Biosecurity SA   (Australia)

^q MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^r SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Birds; Organochlorine pesticides; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Sturnus

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

AUSTRALIA; BELGIUM; BIOMONITORING; BIOMONITORS; BIRD EGGS; EMISSION PATTERN; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; LARGE-SCALE MONITORING; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); SAMPLING LOCATION; STURNUS; VULGARIS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; OXYCHLORDANE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOMONITORING; BIRD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HCH; ORGANOHALOGEN; PBDE; PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BREEDING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STARLING; STURNUS UNICOLOR; STURNUS VULGARIS; URBAN AREA;

NEW ZEALAND; UNITED STATES;

AVES; STURNIDAE; STURNUS; STURNUS UNICOLOR; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 84870342542     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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