Wandering albatrosses document latitudinal variations in the transfer of persistent organic pollutants and mercury to southern ocean predators

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 14746-14755

  Carravieri, Alice ^a   Bustamante, Paco ^a   Tartu, Sabrina ^a   Meillère, Alizée ^a   Labadie, Pierre ^b   Budzinski, Hélène ^b   Peluhet, Laurent ^b   Barbraud, Christophe ^a   Weimerskirch, Henri ^a   Chastel, Olivier ^a   Cherel, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CONTAMINATION; DISTILLATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FEEDING; MARINE POLLUTION; MERCURY (METAL); TRACE ELEMENTS; TROPICS;

CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATIONS; CONTAMINANT TRANSFER; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS; LATITUDINAL VARIATION; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; OCEANIC ENVIRONMENTS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

HOT WATER; LIPID; MERCURY; PESTICIDE; TRACE ELEMENT;

BIOACCUMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PERSISTENCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREDATOR; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ALBATROSS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIRD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FORAGING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); LATITUDE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PREDATOR; SEA; SEX DIFFERENCE;

CROZET ISLANDS; FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

AVES; DIOMEDEA EXULANS;

EID: 84918563558     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es504601m     Document Type: Article

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