Marine Birds as Sentinels of Environmental Pollution

By J. Burger, M. Gochfeld. EcoHealth, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Citations in the corpus

• Marine mammals as ecosystem sentinels (2008, background): “For well over a decade, rising levels of contaminants in the bodies of seabirds and marine mammals have demonstrated the degree to which marine ecosystems are affected by anthropogenic pollutants (e.g., Burger and Gochfeld 2004; Reijnders et al. 1999).”
• Top Predators as Conservation Tools: Ecological Rationale, Assumptions, and Efficacy (2008, background): “Similarly, Carroll et al. (2003) showed that the effectiveness of using population viabilities of a suite of large carnivores in the Rocky Mountains (United States and Canada) to determine the location and dimensions of reserves was variable depending on the nontarget taxon and degree of endemism.”
• Intergenerational transfer of plastic debris by Short-tailed Shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostris) (2011, background): “Toxic chemicals, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), can be released from plastic debris and, when consumed, can cause subtle effects that are evident only over long periods of time (Ryan et al. 1988; Mato et al. 2001; Burger and Gochfeld 2004; Colabuono et al. 2010).”
• Biota as toxic metal indicators (2014, background): “Burger and Gochfeld (2004) analyzed methyl and inorganic Hg separately.”
• A Review of Plastic-Associated Pressures: Cetaceans of the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Australian Shearwaters as Case Studies (2018, methodology): “Indicator species or “sentinels” have been used as a tool to communicate the health of ecosystems for decades (Zacharias and Roff, 2001), and when used correctly, they can synthesize large quantities of information on pollution, fish abundance, and other natural and anthropogenic changes (Cairns, 19”