Long-term changes in oil pollution off the Belgian coast: evidence from beached bird monitoring
Trends in oil pollution in the southernmost (Belgian) part of the North Sea were analysed using a dataset of 37 years (1962-99) of annual national beached bird surveys conducted in February each year. The most abundant seabird groups represented in the beached birds were auks (31 %), gulls (28%), scoters (17%) and Kittiwake (9%). Oil rates of most bird species/taxa indicate a decline in oil pollution, though only Larus-gulls, Common Guillemot and Razorbill show significant reductions. The slope in the linear decreasing trend is steeper in inshore and midshore species, than in pelagic species.... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2002 |
Schlagwörter: | Marine birds / Oil pollution / Surveys / Temporal variations / ANE / North Sea |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27307592 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/316223.pdf |