Human originated pollutants in breeding seabirds - An assessment of pollution status in the course of breeding, it´s relation to foraging ecology, ingested plastic particles and impacts on breeding be-haviours of a Mediterranean top predator, the Scopoli´s shearwater (Calonectris diomedea).

• Applicant: Professorin Petra Quillfeldt, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions ; Oceanography
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 437441322

• Final Report Year: 2024

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Publications

• How shearwaters prey. New insights in foraging behaviour and marine foraging associations using bird-borne video cameras. Marine Biology, 169(1).
  Michel, Lucie; Cianchetti-Benedetti, Marco; Catoni, Carlo & Dell’Omo, Giacomo
  
• Analysis of organochlorines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons designed for pollutant biomonitoring in three seabird matrices. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
  Michel, Lucie; Oró-Nolla, Bernat; Dell’Omo, Giacomo; Quillfeldt, Petra & Lacorte, Sílvia
  
• Assessing perfluoroalkyl substance pollution in Central Mediterranean breeding shearwaters. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 44(2), 420-431.
  Michel, Lucie; Zhang, Junjie; Asimakopoulos, Alexandros; Austad, Martin; Bustamante, Paco; Cecere, Jacopo G.; Cianchetti-Benedetti, Marco; Colominas-Ciuró, Roger; Dell’Omo, Giacomo; De Pascalis, Federico; Jaspers, Veerle L. B. & Quillfeldt, Petra