PMID- 31280153
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20191127
LR  - 20191127
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 689
DP  - 2019 Nov 1
TI  - Arctic cleansing diet: Sex-specific variation in the rapid elimination of 
      contaminants by the world's champion migrant, the Arctic tern.
PG  - 716-724
LID - S0048-9697(19)33077-3 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.505 [doi]
AB  - Contamination of Arctic marine environments continues to be a concern for 
      wildlife managers. Because the Arctic is a sink for the long-range transport of 
      persistent organic pollutants (POPs), many studies have detected high 
      concentrations of POPs in various Arctic birds. In this study from high Arctic 
      Canada, we show that male Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea), which migrate from 
      the Antarctic to the Arctic annually to breed, decline in concentrations of many 
      hepatic POPs through the breeding season. This suggests that local Arctic food 
      webs are less contaminated than regions where terns fed during or migration, 
      despite that the terns appear to feed at a higher trophic level near their 
      colony.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Mallory, Mark L
AU  - Mallory ML
AD  - Biology, Acadia University, 33 Westwood Avenue, Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6, Canada. 
      Electronic address: mark.mallory@acadiau.ca.
FAU - Anderson, Christine M
AU  - Anderson CM
AD  - Biology, Acadia University, 33 Westwood Avenue, Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6, Canada.
FAU - Braune, Birgit M
AU  - Braune BM
AD  - National Wildlife Research Centre, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Raven 
      Road, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3, Canada.
FAU - Pratte, Isabeau
AU  - Pratte I
AD  - Biology, Acadia University, 33 Westwood Avenue, Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6, Canada.
FAU - Provencher, Jennifer F
AU  - Provencher JF
AD  - Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Boulevard 
      Saint-Joseph, Gatineau, QC, CANADA, J8Y 3Z5.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20190630
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Arctic Regions
MH  - Charadriiformes/*metabolism
MH  - Diet/*veterinary
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Female
MH  - Food Chain
MH  - Liver/chemistry
MH  - Male
MH  - Nunavut
MH  - Seasons
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*metabolism
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Arctic
OT  - Breeding
OT  - Migration
OT  - Seabird
OT  - Sterna paradisaea
EDAT- 2019/07/08 06:00
MHDA- 2019/11/28 06:00
CRDT- 2019/07/08 06:00
PHST- 2019/04/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/06/28 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/06/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/07/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/11/28 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/07/08 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(19)33077-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.505 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2019 Nov 1;689:716-724. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.505. 
      Epub 2019 Jun 30.