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- Title
HIGH WITHIN-INDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN TOTAL MERCURY CONCENTRATION IN SEABIRD FEATHERS.
- Authors
Bond, Alexander L.; Diamond, Antony W.
- Abstract
To our knowledge, no rigorous assessment of the variation in mercury concentrations within individual seabirds has been made using multiple body feathers. We analyzed five feathers from individual Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan), common terns (Sterna hirundo L.), and Leach's storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa Veillot) and found levels of within-individual variability higher than population or time-series variation. Using a randomization procedure, we found a large range of possible mercury concentrations if only one feather per individual had been sampled. Researchers should report within-individual variability in future studies.
- Subjects
SEA birds; MERCURY; FEATHERS; ARCTIC tern; STERNA
- Publication
Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, 2008, Vol 27, Issue 11, p2375
- ISSN
0730-7268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1897/08-163.1