A decade of data and hundreds of analytes: Legacy and emerging chemicals in North American herring gull plasma

Brady, Sydney; Shuwal, Matthew; Capozzi, Staci L.; Xia, Chunjie; Annis, Mandy; Grasman, Keith; Venier, Marta

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142797

Chemosphere

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142797

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A decade of data and hundreds of analytes: Legacy and emerging chemicals in North American herring gull plasma

Sydney Brady,

Matthew Shuwal,

Staci L. Capozzi

et al.

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Examining Bald Eagle Contaminant Exposure and Reproductive Risk Above and Below Dams on Great Lakes Tributaries

Eakin,

Williams,

Moore

et al. 2024

Arch Environ Contam Toxicol

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Removing lowermost dams can reestablish fish passage on Great Lakes tributaries. This can increase the transfer of contaminants from anadromous fish to piscivorous wildlife upstream; however, concentrations of bioaccumulative contaminants in Great Lakes fish have decreased over the last several decades. We analyzed concentrations of PCBs and the toxic equivalence (TEQs) calculated from PCBs, DDTs, other organochlorine pesticides, and PBDEs in the plasma of bald eagle nestlings above and below lowermost dams on five river systems in Michigan from 1999 to 2013. We examined relationships between contaminants and metrics of reproductive success from 1997 to 2018, including the effects of year and location relative to the lowermost dam. Σ20PCB and p,p’-DDE were important in characterizing differences in contaminant mixtures above and below dams. Concentrations of contaminants were generally greater below dams than above. There were generally greater nest success and more nestlings per nest below dams, but nest location explained little variability (R2 values = 0.03–0.15). Neither Σ20PCB nor p,p’-DDE was a significant predictor of 5-year productivity means by river reach despite concentrations exceeding previously established effects thresholds for healthy bald eagle populations in the Great Lakes (≥ 1 nestling/nest). Our study indicates that dams may continue to reduce the upstream movement of contaminants to bald eagles, but at the measured concentrations, contaminants did not impair productivity and reproductive success as indicated by nestlings per nest. Additional information about population dynamics could clarify population-level effects of contaminants on bald eagles and to what degree these populations are self-sustaining throughout the Great Lakes.

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Examining Bald Eagle Contaminant Exposure and Reproductive Risk Above and Below Dams on Great Lakes Tributaries

Eakin,

Williams,

Moore

et al. 2024

Arch Environ Contam Toxicol

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A decade of data and hundreds of analytes: Legacy and emerging chemicals in North American herring gull plasma

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Examining Bald Eagle Contaminant Exposure and Reproductive Risk Above and Below Dams on Great Lakes Tributaries

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