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Overview

Jan Ove Bustnes is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions to Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research addresses several main topics including:

  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Avian ecology and behavior

Bustnes has contributed to various frequent publication venues, which include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Research
  • Environment International
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Recent representative papers authored or co-authored by Jan Ove Bustnes include:

  • Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds (2022), The Science of The Total Environment
  • A risk assessment of the effects of mercury on Baltic Sea, Greater North Sea and North Atlantic wildlife, fish and bivalves (2020), Environment International
  • Exposure to PFAS is Associated with Telomere Length Dynamics and Demographic Responses of an Arctic Top Predator (2020), Environmental Science & Technology
  • Temporal trends of legacy organochlorines in different white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) subpopulations: A retrospective investigation using archived feathers (2020), Environment International
  • Spatiotemporal Analysis of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in White-Tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) Nestlings from Northern Norway-A Ten-Year Study (2020), Environmental Science & Technology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several peers, including Igor Eulaers, Bård-Jørgen Bårdsen, Dorte Herzke, Sophie Bourgeon, and Geir Wing Gabrielsen.

Best Publications

  • Exposure and effects assessment of persistent organohalogen contaminants in arctic wildlife and fish.

    Robert J. Letcher;Jan Ove Bustnes;Rune Dietz;Bjørn M. Jenssen

  • Current state of knowledge on biological effects from contaminants on arctic wildlife and fish

    Rune Dietz;Robert J. Letcher;Jean Pierre Desforges;Igor Eulaers

  • To breed or not to breed: endocrine response to mercury contamination by an Arctic seabird

    Sabrina Tartu;Aurélie Goutte;Paco Bustamante;Frédéric Angelier

  • An overview of existing raptor contaminant monitoring activities in Europe.

    P. Gómez-Ramírez;R.F. Shore;N.W. van Den Brink;B. Van Hattum

  • ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ORGANOCHLORINE POLLUTANTS IN THE ARCTIC: A STUDY OF THE GLAUCOUS GULL

    Jan Ove Bustnes;Kjell Einar Erikstad;Janneche Utne Skaare;Vidar Bakken

  • Clutch-Size Determination in Precocial Birds: A Study of the Common Eider

    Kjell Einar Erikstad;Jan Ove Bustnes;Truls Moum

  • Corticosterone, prolactin and egg neglect behavior in relation to mercury and legacy POPs in a long-lived Antarctic bird

    Sabrina Tartu;Frédéric Angelier;John C. Wingfield;Paco Bustamante

  • Parental care in the common eider (Somateria mollissima): factors affecting abandonment and adoption of young

    Jan O. Bustnes;Kjell E. Erikstad

  • Patterns of incubation and nest‐site attentiveness in relation to organochlorine (PCB) contamination in glaucous gulls

    J.O. Bustnes;V. Bakken;K.E. Erikstad;F. Mehlum

  • Immune function and organochlorine pollutants in arctic breeding glaucous gulls

    JO Bustnes;SA Hanssen;I Folstad;KE Erikstad

  • Size selection of common mussels, Mytilus edulis, by common eiders, Somateria mollissima: energy maximization or shell weight minimization?

    Jan Ove Bustnes;Kjell Einar Erikstad

  • Survival rate and breeding outputs in a high Arctic seabird exposed to legacy persistent organic pollutants and mercury

    Aurélie Goutte;Aurélie Goutte;Christophe Barbraud;Dorte Herzke;Paco Bustamante

  • Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds.

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  • A first evaluation of the usefulness of feathers of nestling predatory birds for non-destructive biomonitoring of persistent organic pollutants.

    Igor Eulaers;Adrian Covaci;Dorte Herzke;Marcel Eens

  • Feeding Ecology and the Concentration of Organochlorines in Glaucous Gulls

    J. O. Bustnes;K. E. Erikstad;V. Bakken;F. Mehlum

  • Influence of wintering area on persistent organic pollutants in a breeding migratory seabird

    Eliza H. K. Leat;Sophie Bourgeon;Ellen Magnusdottir;Geir W. Gabrielsen

  • Relationships between reproductive performance and organochlorine contaminants in great black-backed gulls (Larus marinus)

    Morten Helberg;Jan Ove Bustnes;Kjell Einar Erikstad;Kai Ove Kristiansen

  • Temporal Trends and Pattern of Polyfluoroalkyl Compounds in Tawny Owl (Strix aluco) Eggs from Norway, 1986−2009

    Lutz Ahrens;Dorte Herzke;Sandra Huber;Jan Ove Bustnes

  • Endocrine and Fitness Correlates of Long-Chain Perfluorinated Carboxylates Exposure in Arctic Breeding Black-Legged Kittiwakes

    Sabrina Tartu;Geir Wing Gabrielsen;Pierre Blévin;Hugh I Ellis

  • Strongly increasing blood concentrations of lipid-soluble organochlorines in high arctic common eiders during incubation fast

    Jan Ove Bustnes;Børge Moe;Dorte Herzke;Sveinn Are Hanssen

  • The Svalbard Glaucous Gull as Bioindicator Species in the European Arctic: Insight from 35 Years of Contaminants Research

    J. Verreault;J. Verreault;G.W. Gabrielsen;J.O. Bustnes

  • Blood concentration of organochlorine pollutants and wing feather asymmetry in Glaucous Gulls

    J. O. Bustnes;I. Folstad;K. E. Erikstad;M. Fjeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Kjell Einar Erikstad
Kjell Einar Erikstad Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Janneche Utne Skaare
Janneche Utne Skaare Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Christian Sonne
Christian Sonne Aarhus University
Geir W. Gabrielsen
Geir W. Gabrielsen Norwegian Polar Institute
Olivier Chastel
Olivier Chastel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frédéric Angelier
Frédéric Angelier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ivar Folstad
Ivar Folstad University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Veerle L.B. Jaspers
Veerle L.B. Jaspers Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dorte Herzke
Dorte Herzke Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Paco Bustamante
Paco Bustamante University of La Rochelle

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