Journal article
Contamination of an arctic terrestrial food web with marine-derived persistent organic pollutants transported by breeding seabirds
Abstract
At Cape Vera, Devon Island (Nunavut, Canada), a colony of northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) concentrates and releases contaminants through their guano to the environment. We determined whether persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from seabirds were transferred to coastal food webs. Snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) were the most contaminated species, with ∑PCB and ∑DDT (mean: 168, 106 ng/g ww) concentrations surpassing environmental …
Authors
Choy ES; Kimpe LE; Mallory ML; Smol JP; Blais JM
Journal
Environmental Pollution, Vol. 158, No. 11, pp. 3431–3438
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 2010
DOI
10.1016/j.envpol.2010.07.014
ISSN
0269-7491