Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.18710/YOVAIM |
Publication Date
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2024-03-11 |
Title
| Replication Data for: High Levels of Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) from Norway, 2015 to 2017 |
Author
| Andvik, Clare (University of Oslo) - ORCID: 0000-0002-1870-7106 |
Point of Contact
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Andvik, Clare (University of Oslo) |
Description
| Little is known of the movement or presence of unregulated, emerging contaminants in top predators. The aim of the present study was to conduct the first screening of legacy and emerging contaminants in multiple tissues of killer whales (Orcinus orca) from Norway and investigate tissue partitioning and maternal transfer. Blubber was collected from 8 killer whales in 2015 to 2017, in addition to muscle from 5 of the individuals, and kidney, liver, heart, and spleen from a neonate. We screened for 4 unregulated brominated flame retardants and found pentabromotoluene (PBT) and hexabromobenzene (HBB) at low levels in the blubber of all individuals (median PBT 0.091 ng/g lipid wt, median HBB 1.4 ng/g lipid wt). Levels of PBT and HBB (wet wt) were twice as high in the blubber than the muscle for each individual, confirming preferential accumulation in lipid-rich tissues. Perfluoroalkyl substances and total mercury levels were lower in the neonate than adults, suggesting less efficient maternal transfer of these substances. Polychlorinated biphenyl levels in blubber exceeded the threshold for onset of physiological effects (9 µg/g lipid wt) in 7 of the 8 whales, including the neonate. The presence of PBT and HBB in the neonate is the first evidence of maternal transfer of these unregulated contaminants in marine mammals. Our results are relevant for the continued environmental monitoring of contaminants in the Arctic. |
Subject
| Earth and Environmental Sciences; Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
Keyword
| Maternal transfer
Emerging pollutants
Wildlife toxicology
Mercury (Realfagstermer) https://data.ub.uio.no/skosmos/realfagstermer/en/page/c012183
Flame retardants (Realfagstermer) https://data.ub.uio.no/skosmos/realfagstermer/en/page/c004865
Perfluoroalkyl substance |
Related Publication
| Andvik, C., Jourdain, E., Lyche, J. et al. High Levels of Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) from Norway, 2015 to 2017. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 40:7, 1848-1858 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5064 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5064 |
Language
| English |
Producer
| University of Oslo (UiO) https://www.uio.no/english/ |
Contributor
| Data Collector : Jourdain, Eve
Data Collector : Karoliussen, Richard
Project Leader : Borgå, Katrine
Project Member : Lyche, Jan Ludvig |
Funding Information
| Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment: QZA-15/0137
Sea World and Busch Gardens Conservation Fund
Sea World Parks and Entertainment |
Distributor
| University of Oslo (UiO) https://dataverse.no/dataverse/uio |
Depositor
| Andvik, Clare Margaret |
Deposit Date
| 2024-02-27 |
Time Period
| Start Date: 2015 ; End Date: 2021 |
Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2015 ; End Date: 2017 |
Data Type
| Field data; Laboratory data |
Related Dataset
| https://doi.org/10.18710/PSYBHO; https://doi.org/10.18710/EHNPOW |