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Blood selenium concentrations in female Pacific black brant molting in Arctic Alaska: Relationships with age and habitat salinity

Overview of attention for article published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, July 2016
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Title
Blood selenium concentrations in female Pacific black brant molting in Arctic Alaska: Relationships with age and habitat salinity
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Marine Pollution Bulletin, July 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.06.110
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J. Christian Franson, Paul L. Flint, Joel A. Schmutz

Abstract

Blood samples collected from 81 female Pacific black brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) molting near Teshekpuk Lake, Alaska, were analyzed for selenium concentration. The concentration of selenium in blood of after second year (hatched two or more years ago) females (0.84μg/g wet weight) was significantly greater than the concentration in second year (hatched the previous year) females (0.61μg/g wet weight). The concentrations of selenium we found in blood of black brant were 1.5 to 2 times greater than baseline values typical of freshwater birds, but considerably lower than reported in other marine waterfowl sampled in Alaska. This finding may be attributable in part to the nearly exclusive herbivorous diet of black brant. No relationship was noted between blood selenium concentration and molting habitat salinity. We are unaware of any previous reports of blood selenium concentrations in black brant.

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Unknown 12 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 25%
Student > Bachelor 2 17%
Librarian 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Student > Master 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 3 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 33%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 17%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 8%
Social Sciences 1 8%
Environmental Science 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 July 2016.
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#17,285,036
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Marine Pollution Bulletin
#5,483
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#236,748
of 366,074 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Marine Pollution Bulletin
#103
of 200 outputs
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