ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2014
Demographic consequences of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants in a vulnerable long-lived bird, the wandering albatross.
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- Relationships between mercury burden, sex, and sexually selected feather ornaments in crested auklet (Aethia cristatella).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020Article
- Investigating effects of soil chemicals on density of small mammal bioindicators using spatial capture-recapture models.PloS one · 2020Article
- Arctic climate change and pollution impact little auk foraging and fitness across a decade.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Pigeon odor varies with experimental exposure to trace metal pollution.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2019Article
- Stress behaviour and physiology of developing Arctic barnacle goslings ( Branta leucopsis) is affected by legacy trace contaminants.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Mercury, Lead, Cadmium, Cobalt, Arsenic and Selenium in the Blood of Semipalmated Sandpipers (Toxics · 2018Article
- Relationships between blood mercury levels, reproduction, and return rate in a small seabird.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2017Article
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- Age-related mercury contamination and relationship with luteinizing hormone in a long-lived Antarctic bird.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
Seabirds are top predators of the marine environment that accumulate contaminants over a long life-span. Chronic exposure to pollutants is thought to compromise survival rate and long-term reproductive outputs in these long-lived organisms, thus inducing population decline. However, the demographic consequences of contaminant exposure are largely theoretical because of the dearth of long-term datasets. This study aims to test whether adult survival rate, return to the colony and long-term breeding performance were related to blood mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd) and persistent organic pollutants (POPs), by using a capture-mark-recapture dataset on the vulnerable wandering albatross Diomedea exulans. We did not find evidence for any effect of contaminants on adult survival probability. However, blood Hg and POPs negatively impacted long-term breeding probability, hatching and fledging probabilities. The proximate mechanisms underlying these deleterious effects are likely multifaceted, through physiological perturbations and interactions with reproductive costs. Using matrix population models, we projected a demographic decline in response to an increase in Hg or POPs concentrations. This decline in population growth rate could be exacerbated by other anthropogenic perturbations, such as climate change, disease and fishery bycatch. This study gives a new dimension to the overall picture of environmental threats to wildlife populations.
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