Patterns of incubation and nest‐site attentiveness in relation to organochlorine (PCB) contamination in glaucous gulls

• Published in: Journal of Applied Ecology
• Main Authors: Bustnes, J.O., Bakken, V., Erikstad, K.E., Mehlum, F., Skaare, J.U.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2001
• Subjects: Bear Island; Larus hyperboreus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00633.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2664.2001.00633.x; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2664.2001.00633.x

Summary Although experimental studies show that organochlorines (OC) can affect bird behaviour, field assessments are invariably confounded by ecological differences between contaminated and uncontaminated sites. The behaviour of individual birds in the field has rarely been related to the contamina...