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Distefano GG, Zangrando R, Basso M, et al. The ubiquity of neonicotinoid contamination: Residues in seabirds with different trophic habits. Environ Res. 2021;206:112637doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112637.
Distefano, G. G., Zangrando, R., Basso, M., Panzarin, L., Gambaro, A., Volpi Ghirardini, A., & Picone, M. (2021). The ubiquity of neonicotinoid contamination: Residues in seabirds with different trophic habits. Environmental research, 206112637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112637
Distefano, Gabriele Giuseppe, et al. "The ubiquity of neonicotinoid contamination: Residues in seabirds with different trophic habits." Environmental research vol. 206 (2021): 112637. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112637
Distefano GG, Zangrando R, Basso M, Panzarin L, Gambaro A, Volpi Ghirardini A, Picone M. The ubiquity of neonicotinoid contamination: Residues in seabirds with different trophic habits. Environ Res. 2021 Dec 31;206:112637. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112637. Epub 2021 Dec 31. PMID: 34973939.
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Environ Res. 2021 Dec 31;206:112637. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112637. Epub 2021 Dec 31.

The ubiquity of neonicotinoid contamination: Residues in seabirds with different trophic habits.

Environmental research

Gabriele Giuseppe Distefano, Roberta Zangrando, Marco Basso, Lucio Panzarin, Andrea Gambaro, Annamaria Volpi Ghirardini, Marco Picone

Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica, Università Ca' Foscari, Campus Scientifico via Torino 155, I-30170, Mestre, Venezia, Italy.
  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica, Università Ca' Foscari, Campus Scientifico via Torino 155, I-30170, Mestre, Venezia, Italy; Istituto di Scienze Polari (ISP), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Torino 155, I-30170 Mestre, Venezia, Italy.
  3. Via G.B. Verci 25/4, 35128, Padova, Italy.
  4. Associazione Naturalistica Sandonatese, c/o Centro Didattico Naturalistico il Pendolino, via Romanziol 130, 30020, Noventa di Piave, Venezia, Italy.
  5. Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica, Università Ca' Foscari, Campus Scientifico via Torino 155, I-30170, Mestre, Venezia, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 34973939 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.112637

Abstract

Neonicotinoids are one of the most diffusely used classes of pesticides whose level of danger toward non-target invertebrate and vertebrate species has raised increasing concern in the last decades. Among vertebrates, birds are particularly susceptible to unintentional neonicotinoid poisoning since they can be exposed through different pathways, including ingestion of dressed seeds, sucking of contaminated pollen, ingestion of sprayed insects, predation on contaminated aquatic and terrestrial preys. In the present study, we investigated the possible exposure of seabirds by measuring the residues of five neonicotinoids (acetamiprid, clothianidin, imidacloprid, thiacloprid and thiamethoxam) in samples of pooled feathers collected from fledglings of the strictly piscivorous Sandwich tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis) and the mixotrophic species Mediterranean gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus). At least one neonicotinoid was quantified in all the Mediterranean gull samples (n = 11) and 89% of the analysed Sandwich tern samples (n = 36). The active principles with the highest quantification rates were imidacloprid (100% in Mediterranean gulls and 58% in Sandwich terns) and clothianidin (100% in Mediterranean gulls and 61% in Sandwich terns), while thiacloprid was the less frequently detected pesticide (<20% of samples in both species). Mean concentrations ± standard error for imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam were 8.8 ± 1.4, 4.5 ± 0.19 and 0.16 ± 0.02 ng g

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Keywords: Clothianidin; Imidacloprid; Mediterranean gull; Sandwich tern; Thiamethoxam

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