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Liver and kidney concentrations of vanadium in oiled seabirds after the Erika wreck
- Source :
- Science of the Total Environment, Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier, 2004, 333 (1-3), pp.295-301. ⟨10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.05.014⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2004.
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Abstract
- Vanadium was measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometry in the liver and kidney of several oiled seabirds that were stranded on the French Atlantic coasts after the Erika wreck and died in wildlife care Centers. Estimated averages were 30 to 77 ng g−1 wet weight (ww) in the liver and 52 to 72 ng g−1 wet weight in the kidney. These concentrations were not higher in oiled birds than in dead birds found later, without visible traces of petroleum on beaches not affected by the Erika pollution. Vanadium hepatic and renal concentrations do not seem to be appropriate biomarkers for recent exposure to fuel in seabirds.
- Subjects :
- Environmental Engineering
Wet weight
OIL SPILL
Vanadium
chemistry.chemical_element
Animals, Wild
Kidney
Birds
ALCA TORDA
Accidents, Occupational
Animals
Environmental Chemistry
Tissue Distribution
Atlantic Ocean
VANADIUM
Waste Management and Disposal
Ships
SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA
MELANITTA NIGRA
[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment
biology
Chemistry
Ecology
Spectrophotometry, Atomic
Liver and kidney
URIA AALGE
Anatidae
biology.organism_classification
Pollution
Petroleum
Liver
Environmental chemistry
Oil spill
France
Environmental Monitoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00489697 and 18791026
- Volume :
- 333
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science of The Total Environment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9645c82186b764f4861adde0060a50e9