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Lead concentrations in blood from incubating common eiders (Somateria mollissima) in the Baltic Sea

Lam SS 1 , McPartland M 2 , Noori B 2 , Garbus SE 3 , Lierhagen S 4 , Lyngs P 5 Show all authors , Dietz R 3 , Therkildsen OR 6 , Christensen TK 6 , Tjørnløv RS 3 , Kanstrup N 6 , Fox AD 6 , Sørensen IH 7 , Arzel C 8 , Krøkje Å 2 , Sonne C 9

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  • 1 Henan Province Engineering Research Center for Biomass Value-added Products, School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China; Pyrolysis Technology Research Group, Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries (AKUATROP) & Institute of Tropical Biodiversity and Sustainable Development (Bio-D Tropika), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 5, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
  • 3 Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Frederiksborgvej 399, PO Box 358, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
  • 4 Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 5, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
  • 5 Christiansø Scientific Field Station, Christiansø 97, DK-3760 Gudhjem, Denmark
  • 6 Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Grenåvej 14, DK-8410 Rønde, Denmark
  • 7 Danish Hunters' Association, Molsvej 34, DK-8410 Rønde, Denmark
  • 8 University of Turku, Vesilinnantie 5, FI-20014 Turku, Finland; Wetland Ecology Group, P.O. Box 27, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
  • 9 Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Frederiksborgvej 399, PO Box 358, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark; Henan Province Engineering Research Center for Biomass Value-added Products, School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China. Electronic address: cs@bios.au.dk
Environ Int, 2020 04;137:105582.
PMID: 32086081 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.105582

Abstract

Here we investigate if lead may be a contributing factor to the observed population decline in a Baltic colony of incubating eiders (Somateria mollissima). Body mass and blood samples were obtained from 50 incubating female eiders at the Baltic breeding colony on Christiansø during spring 2017 (n = 27) and 2018 (n = 23). All the females were sampled twice during early (day 4) and late (day 24) incubation. The full blood was analysed for lead to investigate if the concentrations exceeded toxic thresholds or changed over the incubation period due to remobilisation from bones and liver tissue. Body mass, hatch date and number of chicks were also analysed with respect to lead concentrations. The body mass (mean ± SD g) increased significantly in the order: day 24 in 2018 (1561 ± 154 g) 

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