Snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivealis) as bio-indicators for exposure differences to legacy and emerging persistent organic pollutants from the Arctic terrestrial environment on Svalbard

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Warner, Nicholas Alexander, Sagerup, Kjetil, Kristoffersen, Siv, Herzke, Dorte, Gabrielsen, Geir W., Jenssen, Bjørn Munro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Barentsburg; Guano; Longyearbyen; Norway; Pyramiden; Svalbard; Snow Bunting
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2635906; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.351

Eggs of snow buntings (Plectrophenax nivealis) were applied as a bio-indicator to examine differences in exposure to legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and perflouroalkyl subtances (PFAS) from the terrestrial environment surrounding the settlements of Longyearbyen, Barentsburg and Pyramiden...