PMID- 30833262
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190405
LR  - 20190405
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 667
DP  - 2019 Jun 1
TI  - Snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivealis) as bio-indicators for exposure differences 
      to legacy and emerging persistent organic pollutants from the Arctic terrestrial 
      environment on Svalbard.
PG  - 638-647
LID - S0048-9697(19)30859-9 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.351 [doi]
AB  - Eggs of snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivealis) were applied as a bio-indicator to 
      examine differences in exposure to legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) 
      and perflouroalkyl subtances (PFAS) from the terrestrial environment surrounding 
      the settlements of Longyearbyen, Barentsburg and Pyramiden on Svalbard, Norway. 
      Significantly higher concentrations of summed polychlorinated biphenyls (sumPCB7) 
      in eggs collected from Barentsburg (2980 ng/g lipid weight (lw)) and Pyramiden 
      (3860 ng/g lw) compared to Longyearbyen (96 ng/g lw) are attributed to local 
      sources of PCBs within these settlements. Similar findings were observed for 
      p,p'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (p,p'-DDE) where higher median 
      concentrations observed in Pyramiden (173 ng/g lw) and Barentsburg (75 ng/g lw) 
      compared to Longyearbyen (48 ng/g lw) may be influenced by guano inputs from 
      breeding seabird populations, although other point sources cannot be ruled out. 
      Concentrations of perfluorooctane sulphonate (PFOS) and several perfluorinated 
      carboxylic acids (PFCAs) in snow bunting eggs were found to be statistically 
      higher in the populated settlements of Longyearbyen and Barentsburg compared to 
      the abandoned Pyramiden. Narrow foraging ranges of snow buntings during breeding 
      season was useful in assessing point sources of exposure for PCBs and PFAS at 
      particular sites with extreme differences observed between nest locations. 
      SumPCB7 concentrations ranged from 2 mug/g ww to below detection limits between 
      nest sites located less than a kilometer from each other in Pyramiden. Similar 
      findings were observed in Longyearbyen, where several PFCAs ranged from 2 to 55 
      times higher between nest sites with similar spatial distances. These findings 
      indicate that snow buntings can be a useful bio-indicator offering high spatial 
      resolution for contaminant source apportionment in terrestrial environments on 
      Svalbard.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Warner, Nicholas A
AU  - Warner NA
AD  - NILU-Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Fram Centre, NO-9296 Tromso, Norway. 
      Electronic address: nicholas.warner@nilu.no.
FAU - Sagerup, Kjetil
AU  - Sagerup K
AD  - Akvaplan-Niva, Fram Centre, NO-9296 Tromso, Norway.
FAU - Kristoffersen, Siv
AU  - Kristoffersen S
AD  - Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 
      Trondheim, Norway; Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, NO-9296 Tromso, 
      Norway.
FAU - Herzke, Dorte
AU  - Herzke D
AD  - NILU-Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Fram Centre, NO-9296 Tromso, Norway.
FAU - Gabrielsen, Geir W
AU  - Gabrielsen GW
AD  - Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, NO-9296 Tromso, Norway; Department of 
      Arctic Technology, University Center in Svalbard, NO-9171 Longyearbyen, Norway.
FAU - Jenssen, Bjorn M
AU  - Jenssen BM
AD  - Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 
      Trondheim, Norway; Department of Arctic Technology, University Center in 
      Svalbard, NO-9171 Longyearbyen, Norway.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20190223
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Alkanesulfonic Acids)
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Fluorocarbons)
RN  - 4M7FS82U08 (Dichlorodiphenyl Dichloroethylene)
RN  - 9H2MAI21CL (perfluorooctane sulfonic acid)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Alkanesulfonic Acids/metabolism
MH  - Animals
MH  - Arctic Regions
MH  - Dichlorodiphenyl Dichloroethylene/metabolism
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/*methods
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*metabolism
MH  - Fluorocarbons/metabolism
MH  - Passeriformes/*metabolism
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/metabolism
MH  - Svalbard
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Arctic
OT  - Birds
OT  - Contaminated soils
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants
OT  - Terrestrial exposure
EDAT- 2019/03/06 06:00
MHDA- 2019/04/06 06:00
CRDT- 2019/03/06 06:00
PHST- 2018/11/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/02/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/02/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/03/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/04/06 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/03/06 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(19)30859-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.351 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2019 Jun 1;667:638-647. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.351. 
      Epub 2019 Feb 23.