Seabirds often have high loads of contaminants. These contaminants have endocrine disrupting properties but their relationships with some endocrine mechanisms are still poorly investigated in free-living organisms. This is the case for the stress response which shifts energy investment away from reproduction and redirects it towards survival. In birds, this stress response is achieved through a...

A three-dimensional/high-resolution transport model for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) has been developed to investigate the dynamics of POPs in the East China Sea. The POPs model includes four compartments: POPs in air, water, phytoplankton, and detritus. Biochemical processes considered in this study are diffusive air-water exchange, phytoplankton uptake of POPs, vertical sinking of phy...

White adipose tissue (WAT) represents a reservoir of lipophilic environmental pollutants, especially of those which are resistant to biological and chemical degradation - so-called persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Large amounts of different congeners and isomers of these compounds exhibit a variety of adverse biological effects. Interactions among different classes of compounds, frequently...

Persistent organic pollutants, POPs (e.g., polychlorinated biphenyls) can seriously and deleteriously affect environmental quality and human health. These organic pollutants are exhibiting high affinities to solid phases and thus, quickly end up in sediments. To better understand the role of carbonaceous materials in the transport and distributions of POPs in terrestrial and near-shore environm...

Bans and regulation in many countries have reduced the environmental levels of many persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Despite these declines, there is still evidence of exposures in a range associated with adverse health effects. This seeming paradox is a result of the realisation that levels once presumed safe can cause subtle but important health effects. For example, levels of PCBs now s...

Though many persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are closely regulated the human population is still exposed to these ubiquitous chemicals from environment and diet. Safe management biomonitoring of POPs necessary understand risk exposure. Within mass sample often limited, therefore robust methods using smaller amounts necessary. This study developed a 96-well plate solid phase extraction (SPE)...