Search: id:"swepub:oai:DiVA.org:su-96875" >
High levels of perf...
High levels of perfluoroalkyl acids in eggs and embryo livers of great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) and herring gull (Larus argentatus) from Lake Vanern, Sweden
-
- Nordén, Marcus (author)
- Örebro universitet,Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik,Man-Technology-Environment research centre (MTM)
-
- Berger, Urs (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för tillämpad miljövetenskap (ITM),Stockholms universitet, Stockholm, Sweden
-
- Engwall, Magnus, 1965- (author)
- Örebro universitet,Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik
-
(creator_code:org_t)
- 2013-03-06
- 2013
- English.
-
In: Environmental Science and Pollution Research. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0944-1344 .- 1614-7499. ; 20:11, s. 8021-8030
- Related links:
-
https://urn.kb.se/re...
-
show more...
-
https://doi.org/10.1...
-
https://urn.kb.se/re...
-
show less...
Abstract
Subject headings
Close
- In the eggs and developing chick livers in the two wild bird species, great cormorant and herring gull, the concentrations of a range of 15 perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) were determined. Eggs of the two species were collected from Lake Vanern, Sweden, and analysed either as undeveloped egg (whole egg or separated into yolk and albumen) or incubated until start of the hatching process when the chick liver was removed and analysed. High levels of PFAAs were found in all matrixes except albumen. The predominant PFAA was perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), which was found in the mu g/g wet weight (ww) range in some samples of cormorant whole egg, yolk and liver and herring gull egg yolk and liver. The average concentration in yolk was 1,506 ng/g ww in cormorant and 589 ng/g ww in herring gull. The average liver concentrations of PFOS were 583 ng/g ww in cormorant and 508 ng/g ww in herring gull. At these concentrations, biochemical effects in the developing embryo or effects on embryo survival cannot be ruled out. For perfluoroalkyl carboxylates (PFCAs), the liver/egg and liver/yolk concentration ratios increased with PFCA chain length in cormorant but not in herring gull, indicating that chain length could possibly affect egg-to-liver transfer of PFCAs and that species differences may exist.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Ekologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- PFAAs
- PFASs
- Perfluorooctane sulfonate
- Herring gull
- Great cormorant
- Transfer
- Egg
- Liver
- Biology
- Enviromental Science
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
Find in a library
To the university's database