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• What should we know when choosing feather, blood, egg or preen oil as biological samples for contaminants detection? A non-lethal approach to bird sampling for PCBs, OCPs, PBDEs and PFASs

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  • A. Pacyna-Kuchta

  - CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - Year 2023

  Birds are considered as good bio-monitors and they can provide highly valuable data about the level of contamination in their habitat. During the design of biomonitoring studies one of the first issues after choosing species is the choice of biological material. Non-lethally collected samples have recently been gaining greater attention as they offer several ethical and practical advantages. However, not all sample matrices are...

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• Exploring avian exposure to parent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): Using the common eider Somateria mollissima in a global context

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  • A. Pacyna-Kuchta
  • J. Souza-Kasprzyk
  • S. E. Garbus
  • I. Eulaers
  • C. Sonne
  • D. Jakubas

  - SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT - Year 2024

  Compared to other organic contaminants, birds are rarely studied for their exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), mainly due to their effective metabolization of parent PAHs. However, as some studies suggest, exposure to PAHs may result in adverse health effects including decreased survival, especially following oil spills. In the present study, we analyzed samples from a sea duck, the common eider Somateria mollissima...

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