PMID- 23830520
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140220
LR  - 20130916
IS  - 1879-3363 (Electronic)
IS  - 0025-326X (Linking)
VI  - 74
IP  - 1
DP  - 2013 Sep 15
TI  - Persistent organic pollutants in marine biota of Sao Pedro and Sao Paulo 
      Archipelago, Brazil.
PG  - 435-40
LID - S0025-326X(13)00317-2 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.06.025 [doi]
AB  - Remote islands, such as the Sao Pedro and Sao Paulo Archipelago (SPSPA), Brazil, 
      are pristine areas. However, these locations are not exempt from the arrival of 
      anthropogenic agents, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The present 
      study aimed to determine the occurrence and distribution of POPs in the marine 
      biota of the SPSPA. Sample extractions were performed using a microwave-assisted 
      method. The predominant compounds were PCBs and DDTs, which respectively had mean 
      wet weight concentrations of 62.23 and 9.23 ng g(-1) in the tropical two-wing 
      flying fish (Exocoetus volitans), 78.66 and 6.81 ng g(-1) in the brown booby 
      (Sula leucogaster) and 43.40 and 3.03 ng g(-1) in the red rock crab (Grapsus 
      grapsus). Low levels of contaminants suggest a relative degree of isolation. 
      Occurrence and distribution profiles of PCBs support long-range atmospheric 
      transport as the main source of contamination and demonstrate the ubiquity of 
      these pollutants in the marine environment.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Dias, Patrick S
AU  - Dias PS
AD  - Laboratorio de Quimica Organica Marinha, Instituto Oceanografico, Universidade de 
      Sao Paulo, 05508-120 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: 
      patricksimoesdias@gmail.com.
FAU - Cipro, Caio V Z
AU  - Cipro CV
FAU - Taniguchi, Satie
AU  - Taniguchi S
FAU - Montone, Rosalinda C
AU  - Montone RC
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20130703
PL  - England
TA  - Mar Pollut Bull
JT  - Marine pollution bulletin
JID - 0260231
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Aquatic Organisms/metabolism
MH  - Biota
MH  - Birds/metabolism
MH  - Brachyura/metabolism
MH  - Brazil
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Fishes
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis/metabolism
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis/*metabolism
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Brown booby
OT  - Long-range contaminant transport
OT  - PCBs
OT  - Remote environments
OT  - Trophic levels
EDAT- 2013/07/09 06:00
MHDA- 2014/02/22 06:00
CRDT- 2013/07/09 06:00
PHST- 2013/04/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/06/09 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/06/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/07/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/07/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/02/22 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0025-326X(13)00317-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.06.025 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mar Pollut Bull. 2013 Sep 15;74(1):435-40. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.06.025. 
      Epub 2013 Jul 3.