PMID- 33540163
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210318
LR  - 20210318
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 771
DP  - 2021 Jun 1
TI  - Persistent organic pollutants in sea bird eggs from the Indian Ocean's Mascarene 
      Basin.
PG  - 145348
LID - S0048-9697(21)00415-0 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145348 [doi]
AB  - We report the concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in seabird 
      eggs from St. Brandon's Atoll, a tropical island system in the western Indian 
      Ocean. Ten eggs each of sooty terns (Onychoprion fuscatus), fairy terns (Gygis 
      alba), and common noddies (Anous stolidus) were collected from the atoll. For a 
      terrestrial reference, we analysed three feral chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) 
      eggs from the same location. Sooty tern eggs contained the highest mean 
      concentrations of three chemical classes: ƩCHL(3) (0.21 ng/g wm; wet mass), 
      ƩPCB(10) (1.5 ng/g wm), and ƩPBDE(6) (1.1 ng/g wm). Fairy tern eggs contained the 
      highest mean concentrations of HCB (0.68 ng/g wm) and ƩCHB(5) (0.83 ng/g wm). The 
      chicken eggs contained the highest mean concentrations of ƩDDT(3) (2.6 ng/g wm), 
      while common noddy eggs contained the highest mean concentrations of ƩHCH(2) 
      (0.5 ng/g wm). We surmise that the differences in chemical composition between 
      species reflect different pollutant compositions in prey from the bird's 
      different foraging ranges. The sooty terns foraging offshore contained higher 
      POPs concentrations than the nearshore-foraging common noddies. Fairy tern eggs 
      contained intermediate concentrations, commensurate with their intermediate 
      foraging. Inter-island differences in contaminant concentrations were seen 
      between eggs of the common noddies from St. Brandon's Atoll and Rodrigues Island, 
      520 km to the south-east. Concentrations of contaminants found in this study were 
      lower than values quantified by other studies, making St. Brandon's Atoll an 
      ideal reference site to monitor background concentrations of POPs in the tropical 
      Indian Ocean.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - van der Schyff, Veronica
AU  - van der Schyff V
AD  - Research Unit, Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, 
      Potchefstroom, South Africa. Electronic address: veronica.vanderschyff@yahoo.com.
FAU - Kwet Yive, Nee Sun Choong
AU  - Kwet Yive NSC
AD  - Department of Chemistry, University of Mauritius, Mauritius.
FAU - Polder, Anuschka
AU  - Polder A
AD  - Research Unit, Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, 
      Potchefstroom, South Africa; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University 
      of Life Sciences (NMBU), 0033 Oslo, Norway.
FAU - Cole, Nik C
AU  - Cole NC
AD  - Research Unit, Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, 
      Potchefstroom, South Africa; Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Les Augres 
      Manor, Trinity, Jersey Channel Islands, UK; Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, 
      Grannum Road, Vacoas, Mauritius.
FAU - Tatayah, Vikash
AU  - Tatayah V
AD  - Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Grannum Road, Vacoas, Mauritius.
FAU - Kylin, Henrik
AU  - Kylin H
AD  - Research Unit, Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, 
      Potchefstroom, South Africa; Department of Water and Environmental Studies, 
      Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden.
FAU - Bouwman, Hindrik
AU  - Bouwman H
AD  - Research Unit, Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, 
      Potchefstroom, South Africa.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210122
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Birds
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - *Environmental Pollutants/analysis
MH  - Indian Ocean
MH  - Islands
MH  - *Persistent Organic Pollutants
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Biomonitoring
OT  - DDT
OT  - Mauritius
OT  - PBDE
OT  - PCB
OT  - Seabird eggs
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2021/02/05 06:00
MHDA- 2021/03/19 06:00
CRDT- 2021/02/04 20:14
PHST- 2020/06/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/01/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/01/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/02/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/03/19 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/02/04 20:14 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(21)00415-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145348 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2021 Jun 1;771:145348. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145348. 
      Epub 2021 Jan 22.