Chlordane components and metabolites in seven species of Arctic seabirds from the Northwater Polynya: relationships with stable isotopes of nitrogen and enantiomeric fractions of chiral components

• Published in: Environmental pollution (1987) Vol. 113; no. 2; pp. 225 - 238
• Main Authors: Fisk, A.T, Moisey, J, Hobson, K.A, Karnovsky, N.J, Norstrom, R.J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2001; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adipose Tissue - chemistry; Alle alle; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Applied ecology; Arctic Regions; Arctic, Northwater Polynya; Aves; Bioaccumulation; Biological and medical sciences; Biotransformation; Birds; Cepphus grylle; Chiral compounds; Chlordan - metabolism; Chlordan - pharmacokinetics; Ecotoxicology, biological effects of pollution; Effects of pollution and side effects of pesticides on vertebrates; Environmental Monitoring; Fulmarus glacialis; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Insecticides - metabolism; Insecticides - pharmacokinetics; Larus hyperboreus; Liver - chemistry; Marine; Nitrogen Isotopes - chemistry; Nitrogen-15; Pagophila eburnea; Rissa tridactyla; Tissue Distribution; Uria lomvia; North America; Greenland; America; Arctic Regions; ANW, Atlantic, Baffin Bay, North Water Polynya; Nitrogen-15; Bioaccumulation; Chiral compounds; Biotransformation; Isotopic analysis; Cepphus grylle; Insecticide; Metabolite; Interspecific comparison; Pesticides; Chiral compound; Nitrogen; Polynya; Marine environment; Vertebrata; Fulmarus glacialis; Organochlorine compounds; Aves; Biological accumulation; Chlordane; Rissa tridactyla; Cyclodiene derivative

The relative proportions of chlordane and its components in seabirds was related to phylogeny. The Northwater Polynya (NOW) is a large area of year-round open water found in the high Arctic between Ellesmere Island and Greenland. NOW has high biological productivity compared with other arctic marine...