| comprehensive re-analysis of archived herring gull eggs reconstructs historical temporal trends in chlorinated hydrocarbon contamination in lake ontario and green bay, lake michigan, 1971-1982. | herring gull egg homogenates collected between 1971 and 1982 from a colony in central lake ontario (scotch bonnet island) and from a colony in central green bay, lake michigan (big sister island) were archived in the canadian wildlife service specimen bank. pooled samples (n = 10) were exhaustively analyzed in 1993 for a wide range of individual chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminant (chc) compounds: ddt, mirex and chlordane compounds and metabolites, chlorobenzenes (cbzs), dieldrin, chlorostyrenes ... | 2006 | 16896467 |