Year 2020

• Exposure of a small Arctic seabird, the little auk (Alle alle) breeding in Svalbard, to selected elements throughout the course of a year

  Publication

  • A. Pacyna-Kuchta
  • D. Jakubas
  • M. Frankowski
  • Ż. Polkowska
  • K. Wojczulanis-Jakubas

  - SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Year 2020

  The Arctic marine ecosystem can be altered by processes of natural and anthropogenic origin. Spatio-temporal variation in species exposure to contamination is still poorly understood. Here, we studied elemental concentrations in the non-lethally collected samples from the most numerous seabird in European Arctic, the little auk (Alle alle) nesting in one breeding colony in Svalbard. This seabird spent the breeding season in the...

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Year 2019

• Storm petrels as indicators of pelagic seabird exposure to chemical elements in the Antarctic marine ecosystem

  Publication

  • A. Pacyna-Kuchta
  • D. Jakubas
  • A. Ausems
  • M. Frankowski
  • Ż. Polkowska
  • K. Wojczulanis-Jakubas

  - SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Year 2019

  Data on trace element bioavailability in the south-polar marine ecosystem is still scarce, compared to that relating to temperate zones. Seabirds can be used as indicators of ecosystem health and sentinels of environmental pollution, constituting a link between marine and terrestrial environments. Here, we analysed the concentration of 17 elements (with special emphasis on mercury, Hg) in feathers of adults and chicks of two pelagic...

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