PMID- 21898564
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120109
LR  - 20181201
IS  - 1552-8618 (Electronic)
IS  - 0730-7268 (Linking)
VI  - 30
IP  - 11
DP  - 2011 Nov
TI  - Legacy and contemporary persistent organic pollutants in North Pacific albatross.
PG  - 2562-9
LID - 10.1002/etc.664 [doi]
AB  - Here we report the first measurements of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE 47, 
      99, and 153) alongside 11 organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and 28 polychlorinated 
      biphenyls (PCBs) in the plasma of albatross from breeding colonies distributed 
      across a large spatial east-west gradient in the North Pacific Ocean. North 
      Pacific albatross are wide-ranging, top-level consumers that forage in pelagic 
      regions of the North Pacific Ocean, making them an ideal sentinel species for 
      detection and distribution of marine contaminants. Our work on contaminant 
      burdens in albatross tissue provides information on transport of persistent 
      organic pollutants (POPs) to the remote North Pacific and serves as a proxy for 
      regional environmental quality. We sampled black-footed (Phoebastria nigripes; 
      n = 20) and Laysan albatross (P. immutabilis; n = 19) nesting on Tern Island, 
      Hawaii, USA, and Laysan albatross (n = 16) nesting on Guadalupe Island, Mexico. 
      Our results indicate that North Pacific albatross are highly exposed to both PCBs 
      and OCPs, with levels ranging from 8.8 to 86.9 ng/ml wet weight and 7.4 to 
      162.3 ng/ml wet weight, respectively. A strong significant gradient exists 
      between Laysan albatross breeding in the Eastern Pacific, having approximately 
      1.5-fold and 2.5-fold higher levels for PCBs and OCPs, respectively, compared to 
      those from the Central Pacific. Interspecies levels of contaminants within the 
      same breeding site also showed high variation, with Tern black-footed albatross 
      having approximately threefold higher levels of both PCBs and OCPs than Tern 
      Laysan albatross. Surprisingly, while PBDEs are known to travel long distances 
      and bioaccumulate in wildlife of high trophic status, we detected these three 
      PBDE congeners only at trace levels ranging from not detectable (ND) to 0.74 
      ng/ml wet weight in these albatross.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2011 SETAC.
FAU - Harwani, Suhash
AU  - Harwani S
AD  - Department of Toxic Substances Control, California Environmental Protection 
      Agency, Berkeley, California, USA.
FAU - Henry, Robert W
AU  - Henry RW
FAU - Rhee, Alexandra
AU  - Rhee A
FAU - Kappes, Michelle A
AU  - Kappes MA
FAU - Croll, Donald A
AU  - Croll DA
FAU - Petreas, Myrto
AU  - Petreas M
FAU - Park, June-Soo
AU  - Park JS
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
DEP - 20110923
PL  - United States
TA  - Environ Toxicol Chem
JT  - Environmental toxicology and chemistry
JID - 8308958
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Pesticide Residues)
RN  - 0N97R5X10X (2,2',4,4'-tetrabromodiphenyl ether)
RN  - 7REL09ZX35 (pentabromodiphenyl ether)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Birds/*blood
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/blood
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers/*blood
MH  - Hawaii
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/*blood
MH  - Mexico
MH  - Pacific Ocean
MH  - Pesticide Residues/*blood
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/*blood
EDAT- 2011/09/08 06:00
MHDA- 2012/01/10 06:00
CRDT- 2011/09/08 06:00
PHST- 2011/04/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2011/05/19 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2011/07/27 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/09/08 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/09/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/01/10 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1002/etc.664 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Toxicol Chem. 2011 Nov;30(11):2562-9. doi: 10.1002/etc.664. Epub 2011 Sep 
      23.