Perfluorinated sulfonate and carboxylate compounds in eggs of seabirds breeding in the Canadian Arctic: Temporal trends (1975-2011) and interspecies comparison

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 616-624

  Braune, Birgit M ^a   Letcher, Robert J ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RATES; CANADIAN ARCTIC; GLAUCOUS GULLS; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATES; PERFLUOROOCTANOATE; PRECURSOR COMPOUNDS; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

CARBOXYLATION;

CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BREEDING POPULATION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; EGG; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SEABIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOXICITY TEST; TOXICOLOGY;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EGG; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; SEABIRD; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIRDS; BREEDING; CANADA; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLUOROCARBONS; OVUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NUNAVUT; PRINCE LEOPOLD ISLAND;

CEPPHUS GRYLLE; FULMARUS GLACIALIS; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; RISSA TRIDACTYLA; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 84871767137     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303733d     Document Type: Article

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