PMID- 26971212
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20161213
LR  - 20161230
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 556
DP  - 2016 Jun 15
TI  - Persistent organic pollutant and mercury concentrations in eggs of ground-nesting 
      marine birds in the Canadian high Arctic.
PG  - 80-8
LID - S0048-9697(16)30417-X [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.205 [doi]
AB  - We collected eggs of eight marine bird species from several colony sites in the 
      Canadian high Arctic located at approximately 76 degrees N and analyzed them for 
      concentrations of legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and mercury. We 
      provide the first report on concentrations of POPs in eggs of three Arctic 
      species (Thayer's gull Larus thayeri, Sabine's gull Xema sabini, Ross's Gull 
      Rhodostethia rosea), and we found significant differences in each of the POP 
      profiles among the five species with sufficient data for statistical comparisons 
      (Thayer's gull, black guillemot Cepphus grylle, Sabine's gull, Arctic tern Sterna 
      paradisaea and common eider Somateria mollissima borealis). The Ross's Gull had 
      unexpectedly high POP concentrations relative to the other species examined, 
      although this was based on a single egg, while glaucous gull Larus hyperboreus 
      eggs from our sampling location had very low POPs. Sabine's gulls had the lowest 
      Hg of the eggs studied, consistent with their low trophic position, but 
      concentrations of their legacy POPs were higher than expected. We also noted that 
      total hexachlorocyclohexanes were higher than reported elsewhere in the 
      circumpolar Arctic in three species.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Peck, Liam E
AU  - Peck LE
AD  - Department of Biology, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia B4P 2R6, Canada.
FAU - Gilchrist, H Grant
AU  - Gilchrist HG
AD  - Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, 
      Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3, Canada.
FAU - Mallory, Conor D
AU  - Mallory CD
AD  - Department of Environment, Government of Nunavut, Iqaluit, Nunavut X0A 0H0, 
      Canada.
FAU - Braune, Birgit M
AU  - Braune BM
AD  - Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, 
      Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3, Canada.
FAU - Mallory, Mark L
AU  - Mallory ML
AD  - Department of Biology, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia B4P 2R6, Canada. 
      Electronic address: Mark.mallory@acadiau.ca.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20160310
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - FXS1BY2PGL (Mercury)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Arctic Regions
MH  - Birds/*metabolism
MH  - Canada
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*metabolism
MH  - Mercury/*metabolism
MH  - Ovum/*metabolism
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Canadian High Arctic
OT  - Marine birds
OT  - Mercury
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants
EDAT- 2016/03/14 06:00
MHDA- 2016/12/15 06:00
CRDT- 2016/03/14 06:00
PHST- 2015/10/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/02/26 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/02/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/03/14 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/03/14 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/12/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0048-9697(16)30417-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.205 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2016 Jun 15;556:80-8. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.205. 
      Epub 2016 Mar 10.