التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Effects of Seabird Vectors on the Fate, Partitioning, and Signatures of Contaminants in a High Arctic Ecosystem. |
| المؤلفون: |
Foster, Karen L.1 kfoster411@gmail.com, Kimpe, Lynda E.2, Brimble, Samantha K.2, Huijun Liu3, Mallory, Mark L.4, Smol, John P.5, Macdonald, Robie W.6, Blais, Jules M.2 |
| المصدر: |
Environmental Science & Technology. 12/1/2011, Vol. 45 Issue 23, p10053-10060. 8p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
FULMARUS glacialis, ORGANOCHLORINE compounds, SEA birds, FUGACITY, DISSOLVED organic matter, BIOTIC communities |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
DEVON Island (Nunavut), NUNAVUT |
| مستخلص: |
Seabirds bioaccumulate contaminants from prey, transport them to their nesting sites, and deposit them in their excreta and carcasses, thereby focusing marine-derived contaminants into remote, terrestrial receptor sites. In the case of organochlorine chemicals transported by northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) to a High Arctic seabird colony on Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada (76°13'N, 89°14'W), this contaminant pathway dominates all others. In freshwater ponds below the nesting cliffs, concentrations of organochlorine contaminants characteristic of fulmar input were 2- to 45-fold higher in sediments and water (depending on seabird input to the particular pond) than in ponds remote from the colony. Air-water fugacity quotients for the ponds decreased with seabird input, indicating that fulmar contaminant input shifts air-water partitioning to increasingly favor volatilization to air. Although contaminant evasion from water was favored, direct evidence of it was not detected in air samples. For PCBs, congener profiles of pond sediments or water became more similar to seabird sources as seabird input increased, and less similar to air profiles. Based on measurements of contaminants in fulmars and other local environmental media, this study presents the first application of fugacities and multivariate source apportionment statistics to resolve seabird biological vectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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