Seabird Guano Is an Efficient Conveyer of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) to Arctic Lake Ecosystems

Migratory seabirds have been linked to localized “hot-spots” of contamination in remote Arctic lakes. One of these lakes is Lake Ellasjøen on Bjørnøya in the Barents Sea. Here we provide quantitative evidence demonstrating that even relatively small populations of certain seabird species can lead to...

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