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Fisheries and pollution in the marine environment: interrelationships and impact on seabirds

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Pollution by mercury will be analysed from diverse fish species, throughout the major wintering areas of European seabirds. This will allow identifying areas and. types of fish particularly risky for this toxic metal, Analysis of mercury from seabird feathers, collected at their breeding grounds, will indicate their potential prey and wintering grounds, which will be contrasted with data from isotopic analysis and satellite tracking (parallel project DISCBIRD).

This way, the project will check the possibility of using seabirds as indicators of mercury pollution away from their breeding areas. The association of seabirds with commercial fisheries will be also checked, and the role of this human activity at modifying diet and thus mercury levels of seabirds will be assessed. The applicant will be trained in state-of-the-art laboratory (mercury and isometric analysis) and fieldwork techniques (including satellite tracking, physiological and environmental data loggers) and in the use of related software.

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UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
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