Temporal trends (1968–2019) of legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in seabird eggs from the northeast Pacific: Is it finally twilight for old POPs?

JE Elliott, R Kesic, SL Lee, KH Elliott - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
… (OCs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), are known to … legacy POPs in the eggs of
five seabird species; two cormorants (… The contaminant profile in the eggs of all species and …

Ecotoxicology of persistent organic pollutants in birds

Y Hao, S Zheng, P Wang, H Sun, J Matsiko… - … Science: Processes & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
… (DDT) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Therefore, it is … acid residues, but were more
likely related to the residue sites… egg laying decreases the reproductive output and survival of …

Ten Bird Species, Six Guilds, Three Habitats, and 59 Chlorinated and Brominated POPs: What do 64 Eggs from the Largest Economic Hub of Southern Africa tell us?

H Bouwman, R Pieters, A Polder, L Quinn - Archives of Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
… (OCP), polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), and brominated flame retardants (BFR) residue
little risk of reproductive failure or mortality based on the measured PCBs, based on the no …

Brominated flame retardants in wild bird eggs from the industrialised heartland of South Africa

LP Quinn, C Roos, R Pieters, A Polder… - African zoology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… The additional waste these poorly regulated products generate … without effective interventions
and waste management. Our … Changes in the growth, but not the survival of American …

Dioxins, PFOS, and 20 other Persistent Organic Pollutants in Eggs of Nine Wild Bird Species from the Vaal River, South Africa

V Lesch, R Pieters, H Bouwman - Archives of Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
… Heron, ibis, cormorant, egrets, and darter eggs, representing three habitats and … diphenyl
ether (PBDE) classes, 18 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs including six non-dioxin-like PCBs; …

Occurrence and distribution of organochlorinated pesticides and flame retardants in Spain and China

P Zapata Corella - 2022 - diposit.ub.edu
… industrial products, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) used as … and (ii) in an e-waste site
affected by electronic dismanting … and quantification of OCPs and PCBs in bird eggs. PBDEs were …

Temporal trends (1972–2017) and spatial differences of persistent halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons in osprey eggs in Finland

M Viluksela, P Saurola, J Koivusaari, M Finnlund… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
… like compounds influenced embryonic survival among highly … and together with polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) ubiquitously … as well as in municipal waste incineration. Due to planar …

Why do we monitor? Using seabird eggs to track trends in Arctic environmental contamination

K Bianchini, ML Mallory, BM Braune… - Environmental …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Eggs were collected opportunistically in the 1970s and 1980s and screened for Hg,
organochlorines (OCs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)… Contaminant residues in seabird …

Contaminant biomonitoring augmented with a qPCR array indicates hepatic mRNA gene expression effects in wild-collected seabird embryos

MD King, G Su, D Crump, A Farhat, V Marlatt… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
… , perfluoroalkyl substances, polychlorinated biphenyls, and … This study demonstrates that
egg collection from free-living … The survival of viable embryos to sampling was 82.5 %, as …

[HTML][HTML] Exposure to persistent organic pollutants is linked to over-wintering latitude in a Pacific seabird, the rhinoceros auklet, Cerorhinca monocerata

JE Elliott, MC Drever, KR Studholme, V Silverthorn… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
… in eggs. The magnitude and pattern of exposure varied by contaminant, with ∑PCBs, ∑PBDEs
and … We suggest that concentrations of these contaminants in rhinoceros auklet eggs are …