High feather mercury concentrations in the wandering albatross are related to sex, breeding status and trophic ecology with no demographic consequences

• Published in: Environmental Research
• Main Authors: Bustamante, Paco, Carravieri, Alice, Goutte, Aurélie, Barbraud, Christophe, Delord, Karine, Chastel, Olivier, Weimerskirch, Henri, Cherel, Yves
• Other Authors: LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés - UMRi 7266 (LIENSs), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Milieux Environnementaux, Transferts et Interactions dans les hydrosystèmes et les Sols (METIS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; Age; Immature; Stable isotopes; Bioaccumulation; Metal; Sex; [SDV.TOX.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Toxicology/Ecotoxicology; Possession Island; Wandering Albatross
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01223563; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01223563/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01223563/file/Bustamante%20et%20al%202015%20ENV%20RES.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2015.10.024

International audience Hg can affect physiology of seabirds and ultimately their demography, particularly if they are top consumers. In the present study, body feathers of > 200 wandering albatrosses from Possession Island in the Crozet archipelago were used to explore the potential demographic e...