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Exploiting international webs of relations: immigrants and the reopening of the Harbour of Antwerp on the eve of the nineteenth century University of Antwerp
An unusual, small naviculoid diatom species from the docks of the Antwerp harbour Meise Botanic Garden
Harbour life Antwerpen University of Antwerp
Modelling of historical evolution of salt water distribution of the right bank of the Scheldt in the Antwerp Harbor Ghent University
Concentrations of chlorinated and brominated contaminants and their metabolites in serum of harbour seals and harbour porpoises University of Antwerp
Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) and harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are top predators in the North Sea and consequently accumulate a variety of pollutants in their tissues. Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and their hydroxylated metabolites (HO-PCBs and HO-PBDEs) were measured in serum of wild harbour seals (n = 47) and captive harbour porpoises (n = 21). Both species exhibit long ...
Inter-species differences for polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in marine top predators from the Southern North Sea: part 1: accumulation patterns in harbour seals and harbour porpoises University of Antwerp
Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) are two representative top predator species of the North Sea ecosystem. The median values of sum of 21 polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners and sum of 10 polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) congeners were 23.1 ìg/g lipid weight (lw) and 0.33 ìg/g lw in blubber of harbour seals (n = 28) and 12.4 ìg/g lw and 0.76 ìg/g lw in blubber of harbour porpoises (n = 35), ...
Biomagnification of naturally-produced methoxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (MeO-PBDEs) in harbour seals and harbour porpoises from the Southern North Sea University of Antwerp
Harbour seals and harbour porpoises are top predator species from the North Sea, have long life spans and hence, are known to accumulate high levels of anthropogenic contaminants. To gain knowledge about the behaviour of naturally-produced compounds in these marine mammals, the biomagnification of naturally-produced methoxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (MeO-PBDEs) was assessed. The biomagnification of MeO-PBDEs (2¡ä-MeO-BDE 68 and ...
Inter-species differences for polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in marine top predators from the Southern North Sea: part 2: biomagnification in harbour seals and harbour porpoises University of Antwerp
Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) were found to differ in the ability to metabolize polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). Biomagnification factors (BMFs), calculated between both predators and their prey (sole Solea solea and whiting Merlangius merlangus), had a large range of variation (between 0.5 and 91 for PCBs and between 0.6 and 53 for PBDEs). For the higher ...