High levels of PFOS in eggs of three bird species in the neighbourhood of a fluoro-chemical plant
| Autor: | Koen Maes, Johan Meyer, Marcel Eens, Tom Dauwe, Lieven Bervoets, Ana Lopez-Antia |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Zoology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Vanellus chemistry.chemical_compound Charadriiformes Animals Passeriformes Northern lapwing Biology Larus melanocephalus Mediterranean gull 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Lapwing Ovum Parus Fluorocarbons biology Ecology Pharmacology. Therapy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine biology.organism_classification Pollution Perfluorooctane Chemistry chemistry Alkanesulfonic Acids Chemical Industry embryonic structures Environmental Pollutants Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Ecotoxicology and environmental safety |
| ISSN: | 0147-6513 |
| Popis: | We studied perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) levels in the eggs of three primarily invertivorous bird species sampled in 2006 near a fluoro-chemical plant: the great tit (Parus major), the northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) and the Mediterranean gull (Larus melanocephalus). Our study reported some of the highest PFOS levels ever measured in wildlife to date (i.e. up to 46182ng/g ww in lapwing eggs). A pronounced decrease in PFOS concentration in the Northern lapwing eggs with distance from the fluoro-chemical plant was found. A similar relationship was found for the great tit, with eggs being collected close to the fluoro-chemical plant having significantly higher PFOS levels than eggs collected 1700m further away. When comparing the PFOS levels in eggs for the three species, collected between 1700 and 5500m no significant differences were observed. In addition, when comparing PFOS levels in eggs between Northern lapwing and great tits closer to the plant (900-1700m) no significant differences were found neither. Despite the high levels found in great tit eggs, plasmatic biochemical biomarker responses did not appear to be affected. |
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