(Table 1) Concentrations of persistant organic pollutants in brain and liver of glaucous gulls, Bjørnøya, Svalbard archipelago

• Main Authors: Sagerup, Kjetil, Helgason, Lisa Bjørnsdatter, Polder, Anuschka, Strøm, Hallvard, Josefsen, Terje D, Skaare, Janneche Utne, Gabrielsen, Geir W
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2009
• Subjects: alpha-Hexabromocyclododecane; alpha-Hexachlorocyclohexane; Bear Island; beta-Hexachlorocyclohexane; Bjørnøya; Svalbard archipelago; Norway; Chlordane; standard deviation; cis-Chlordane; Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene; gamma-Hexachlorocyclohexane (Lindane); Gas chromatography - Mass spectrometry (GC-MS); Hexabromocyclododecane; Hexachlorobenzene; Hexachlorocyclohexane; International Polar Year (2007-2008); ipy; Lipids; total; Method comment; Mirex; MULT; Multiple investigations; Oxychlordane; para,para-Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; congener BDE-100; congener BDE-153; congener BDE-154; congener BDE-183; congener BDE-206; congener BDE-207; congener BDE-208; Barents Sea; Bjornoya; Glaucous Gull; International Polar Year; IPY; Larus hyperboreus; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.786530; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786530

Dead and dying glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) were collected on Bjornoya in the Barents Sea in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Autopsies of the seabirds only explained a clear cause of death for three (14%) of the 21 birds. A total of 71% of the birds were emaciated. Liver and brain samples were analysed f...