Assessment of metals in down feathers of female common eiders and their eggs from the Aleutians: arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, manganese, mercury, and selenium

• Published in: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
• Main Authors: Burger, Joanna, Gochfeld, Michael, Jeitner, Christian, Snigaroff, Daniel, Snigaroff, Ronald, Stamm, Timothy, Volz, Conrad
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Article; Amchitka; Kiska; Somateria mollissima; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4300135; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17934788; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-007-9973-y

Concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, manganese, mercury and selenium were examined in the down feathers and eggs of female common eiders (Somateria mollissima) from Amchitka and Kiska Islands in the Aleutian Chain of Alaska to determine whether there were (1) differences between level...