PMID- 27329112
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170111
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1432-0800 (Electronic)
IS  - 0007-4861 (Print)
IS  - 0007-4861 (Linking)
VI  - 97
IP  - 2
DP  - 2016 Aug
TI  - Legacy Pollutants are Declining in Great Skuas (Stercorarius skua) but Remain 
      Higher in Faroe Islands than in Scotland.
PG  - 184-90
LID - 10.1007/s00128-016-1856-x [doi]
AB  - To monitor environmental pollutants in Faroese biota, samples from a top predator 
      were analysed and put into a spatial and temporal context. Analysis of 20 Great 
      Skua eggs sampled in 2012 from the Faroe Islands showed >70 % lower 
      concentrations of legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) than in samples 
      analysed in 1977. The 2012 Faroese eggs showed higher concentrations than for 
      eggs in Shetland from about the same period (2008). Eggshells were analysed for 
      sub-lethal effects but there were no detectable effects of legacy POP levels on 
      eggshell colour or thickness. A temporal decline in legacy POPs would indicate a 
      reduction in the general pollutant levels present in the environment as has been 
      shown in other areas of the North Atlantic, but there are significant geographic 
      differences in POPs levels likely due to differences in diet resulting in 
      significantly different exposures on a relatively limited spatial scale.
FAU - Hammer, Sjurdur
AU  - Hammer S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3986-5074
AD  - Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of 
      Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. sjurdur@hammer.fo.
FAU - Nager, Ruedi G
AU  - Nager RG
AD  - Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of 
      Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
FAU - Alonso, Sarah
AU  - Alonso S
AD  - Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of 
      Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
FAU - McGill, Rona A R
AU  - McGill RA
AD  - NERC Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility, Scottish Universities 
      Environmental Research Centre, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride, G75 0QF, Scotland, 
      UK.
FAU - Furness, Robert W
AU  - Furness RW
AD  - MacArthur Green, 95 South Woodside Road, Glasgow, UK.
FAU - Dam, Maria
AU  - Dam M
AD  - Environment Agency, Traethagota 38, Argir, FO-165, Faroe Islands.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160621
PL  - United States
TA  - Bull Environ Contam Toxicol
JT  - Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology
JID - 0046021
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Charadriiformes/*metabolism
MH  - Denmark
MH  - Egg Shell/chemistry
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*metabolism
MH  - Scotland
PMC - PMC4942484
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Bioaccumulation
OT  - Eggshell
OT  - Eggshell thickness
OT  - Faroe Islands
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants
OT  - Stable isotope analysis
EDAT- 2016/06/23 06:00
MHDA- 2017/01/12 06:00
PMCR- 2016/06/21
CRDT- 2016/06/23 06:00
PHST- 2016/01/29 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/06/14 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/06/23 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/06/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/01/12 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/06/21 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1007/s00128-016-1856-x [pii]
AID - 1856 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s00128-016-1856-x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Bull Environ Contam Toxicol. 2016 Aug;97(2):184-90. doi: 
      10.1007/s00128-016-1856-x. Epub 2016 Jun 21.