title: Negligible Impact of Ingested Microplastics on Tissue Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Northern Fulmars off Coastal Norway.
abstract: The northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) is defined as an indicator species of plastic pollution by the Oslo-Paris Convention for the North-East Atlantic, but few data exist for fulmars from Norway. Moreover, the relationship between uptake of plastic and pollutants in seabirds is poorly understood. We analyzed samples of fulmars from Norwegian waters and compared the POP concentrations in their liver and muscle tissue with the corresponding concentrations in the loads of ingested plastic in their stomachs, grouped as "no", "medium" (0.01-0.21 g; 1-14 pieces of plastic), or "high" (0.11-0.59 g; 15-106 pieces of plastic). POP concentrations in the plastic did not differ significantly between the high and medium plastic ingestion group for sumPCBs, sumDDTs, and sumPBDEs. By combining correlations among POP concentrations, differences in tissue concentrations of POPs between plastic ingestion subgroups, fugacity calculations, and bioaccumulation modeling, we showed that plastic is more likely to act as a passive sampler than as a vector of POPs, thus reflecting the POP profiles of simultaneously ingested prey.
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Institute for Air Research , FRAM-High North Research Centre on Climate and the Environment, 9296 Tromsø, Norway.
authors.forename: Dorte
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Herzke
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Institute for Nature Research , P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen, 7485 Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: Tycho
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Anker-Nilssen
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Institute for Air Research , FRAM-High North Research Centre on Climate and the Environment, 9296 Tromsø, Norway.
authors.forename: Therese Haugdahl
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Nøst
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Institute for Air Research , FRAM-High North Research Centre on Climate and the Environment, 9296 Tromsø, Norway.
authors.forename: Arntraut
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Götsch
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Institute for Nature Research , P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen, 7485 Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: Signe
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Christensen-Dalsgaard
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Institute for Nature Research , P.O. Box 5685 Sluppen, 7485 Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: Magdalene
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Langset
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Institute for Nature Research , Fakkelgården, 2624 Lillehammer, Norway.
authors.forename: Kirstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fangel
authors.affiliation: Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University , P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands.|IMARES-Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies, Wageningen UR , P.O. Box 68, 1970 AB IJmuiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Albert A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Koelmans
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D046091:Charadriiformes / Q000502:physiology; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005766:Gastrointestinal Contents / Q000737:chemistry*; D009664:Norway; D010969:Plastics; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000737:chemistry / Q000633:toxicity*
chemical_list: D010969:Plastics; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical