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dc.date.created2022-09-26T15:03:39Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationKeilen, Ellen Kristine Borgå, Katrine Thorstensen, Helene Skjeie Hylland, Ketil Helberg, Morten Warner, Nicholas Alexander Bæk, Kine Reiertsen, Tone Kristin Ruus, Anders . Differences in Trophic Level, Contaminant Load, and DNA Damage in an Urban and a Remote Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) Breeding Colony in Coastal Norway. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 2022, 41(10), 2466-2478
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10852/97205
dc.description.abstractHerring gulls (Larus argentatus) are opportunistic feeders, resulting in contaminant exposure depending on area and habitat. We compared contaminant concentrations and dietary markers between two herring gull breeding colonies with different distances to extensive human activity and presumed contaminant exposure from the local marine diet. Furthermore, we investigated the integrity of DNA in white blood cells and sensitivity to oxidative stress. We analyzed blood from 15 herring gulls from each colony—the urban Oslofjord near the Norwegian capital Oslo in the temperate region and the remote Hornøya island in northern Norway, on the Barents Sea coast. Based on d13C and d34S, the dietary sources of urban gulls differed, with some individuals having a marine and others a more terrestrial dietary signal. All remote gulls had a marine dietary signal and higher relative trophic level than the urban marine feeding gulls. Concentrations (mean ± standard deviation [SD]) of most persistent organic pollutants, such as polychlorinated biphenyl ethers (PCBs) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), were higher in urban marine (PCB153 17 ± 17 ng/g wet weight, PFOS 25 ± 21 ng/g wet wt) than urban terrestrial feeders (PCB153 3.7 ± 2.4 ng/g wet wt, PFOS 6.7 ± 10 ng/g wet wt). Despite feeding at a higher trophic level (d15N), the remote gulls (PCB153 17 ± 1221 ng/g wet wt, PFOS 19 ± 1421 ng/g wet wt) were similar to the urban marine feeders. Cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes were detected in only a few gulls, except for decamethylcyclopentasiloxane in the urban colony, which was found in 12 of 13 gulls. Only hexachlorobenzene was present in higher concentrations in the remote (2.6 ± 0.42 ng/g wet wt) compared with the urban colony (0.34 ± 0.33 ng/g wet wt). Baseline and induced DNA damage (doublestreak breaks) was higher in urban than in remote gulls for both terrestrial and marine feeders.
dc.description.abstractDifferences in Trophic Level, Contaminant Load, and DNA Damage in an Urban and a Remote Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) Breeding Colony in Coastal Norway
dc.languageEN
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleDifferences in Trophic Level, Contaminant Load, and DNA Damage in an Urban and a Remote Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) Breeding Colony in Coastal Norway
dc.title.alternativeENEngelskEnglishDifferences in Trophic Level, Contaminant Load, and DNA Damage in an Urban and a Remote Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) Breeding Colony in Coastal Norway
dc.typeJournal article
dc.creator.authorKeilen, Ellen Kristine
dc.creator.authorBorgå, Katrine
dc.creator.authorThorstensen, Helene Skjeie
dc.creator.authorHylland, Ketil
dc.creator.authorHelberg, Morten
dc.creator.authorWarner, Nicholas Alexander
dc.creator.authorBæk, Kine
dc.creator.authorReiertsen, Tone Kristin
dc.creator.authorRuus, Anders
cristin.unitcode185,15,29,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for biovitenskap
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode2
dc.identifier.cristin2055593
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitationinfo:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry&rft.volume=41&rft.spage=2466&rft.date=2022
dc.identifier.jtitleEnvironmental Toxicology and Chemistry
dc.identifier.volume41
dc.identifier.issue10
dc.identifier.startpage2466
dc.identifier.endpage2478
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5441
dc.type.documentTidsskriftartikkel
dc.type.peerreviewedPeer reviewed
dc.source.issn0730-7268
dc.type.versionPublishedVersion


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