PMID- 32738640
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200908
LR  - 20200908
IS  - 1879-3363 (Electronic)
IS  - 0025-326X (Linking)
VI  - 159
DP  - 2020 Oct
TI  - A baseline for POPs contamination in Australian seabirds: little penguins vs. 
      short-tailed shearwaters.
PG  - 111488
LID - S0025-326X(20)30606-8 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111488 [doi]
AB  - While globally distributed throughout the world's ecosystems, there is little 
      baseline information on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in marine 
      environments in Australia and, more broadly, the Southern Hemisphere. To fill 
      this knowledge gap, we collected baseline information on POPs in migratory 
      short-tailed shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris) from Fisher Island, Tasmania, and 
      resident little penguins (Eudyptula minor) from Phillip Island, Victoria. Levels 
      of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and 
      brominated flame retardants (BFRs) were determined from blood samples, with total 
      contamination ranging 7.6-47.7 ng/g ww for short-tailed shearwaters and 
      0.12-46.9 ng/g ww for little penguins. In both species contamination followed the 
      same pattern where PCBs>OCPs>BFRs. BFR levels included the presence of the novel 
      flame retardant hexabromobenzene (HBB). These novel results of POPs in seabirds 
      in southeast Australia provide important information on the local (penguins) and 
      global (shearwaters) distribution of POPs in the marine environment.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Lewis, Phoebe J
AU  - Lewis PJ
AD  - Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation (EnSuRe), School of 
      Science, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia; 
      Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston, Tasmania 7050, 
      Australia. Electronic address: phoebe.lewis@rmit.edu.au.
FAU - McGrath, Thomas J
AU  - McGrath TJ
AD  - Toxicological Centre, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, 
      Belgium.
FAU - Chiaradia, Andre
AU  - Chiaradia A
AD  - Conservation Department, Phillip Island Nature Parks, Victoria 3925, Australia.
FAU - McMahon, Clive R
AU  - McMahon CR
AD  - IMOS Animal Tagging, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, 19 Chowder Bay, Mosman 
      2088, New South Wales, Australia.
FAU - Emmerson, Louise
AU  - Emmerson L
AD  - Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston, Tasmania 7050, 
      Australia.
FAU - Allinson, Graeme
AU  - Allinson G
AD  - Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation (EnSuRe), School of 
      Science, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia.
FAU - Shimeta, Jeff
AU  - Shimeta J
AD  - Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation (EnSuRe), School of 
      Science, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200729
PL  - England
TA  - Mar Pollut Bull
JT  - Marine pollution bulletin
JID - 0260231
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - *Environmental Pollutants
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/*analysis
MH  - Pesticides/*analysis
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/*analysis
MH  - *Spheniscidae
MH  - Tasmania
MH  - Victoria
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - PBDEs
OT  - PCBs
OT  - POPs
OT  - Seabirds
OT  - little penguins
OT  - short-tailed shearwaters
EDAT- 2020/08/02 06:00
MHDA- 2020/09/09 06:00
CRDT- 2020/08/02 06:00
PHST- 2020/05/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/07/15 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/07/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/08/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/09/09 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/08/02 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0025-326X(20)30606-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111488 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mar Pollut Bull. 2020 Oct;159:111488. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111488. Epub 
      2020 Jul 29.