Accumulate or eliminate? Seasonal mercury dynamics in albatrosses, the most contaminated family of birds

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: Cherel, Yves, Barbraud, Christophe, Lahournat, Maxime, Jaeger, Audrey, Jaquemet, Sébastien, Wanless, Ross, Phillips, Richard, Thompson, David, Bustamante, Paco
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés - UMR 7266 (LIENSs), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecologie marine tropicale dans les Océans Pacifique et Indien (ENTROPIE Réunion ), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Cape Town, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: Southern ocean; Antarctica; Feathers; Seabirds; Stable isotopes; Moult; Methylmercury; Foraging; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDV.TOX.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Toxicology/Ecotoxicology; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Tristan; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01844106; https://hal.science/hal-01844106/document; https://hal.science/hal-01844106/file/Cherel%20et%20al%202018%20ENPO.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.05.048

International audience Albatrosses (Diomedeidae) are iconic pelagic seabirds whose life-history traits (longevity, high trophic position) put them at risk of high levels of exposure to methylmercury (MeHg), a powerful neurotoxin that threatens humans and wildlife. Here, we report total Hg (THg) conc...