A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors

Silvia Espín; Jovan Andevski; Guy Duke; Igor Eulaers; Pilar Gómez-Ramírez; Gunnar Thor Hallgrimsson; Björn Helander; Dorte Herzke; Veerle L.B. Jaspers; Oliver Krone; Rui Lourenço; Pedro María-Mojica; Emma Martínez-López; Rafael Mateo; Paola Movalli; Pablo Sánchez-Virosta; Richard F. Shore; Christian Sonne; Nico W. van den Brink; Bert van Hattum; Al Vrezec; Chris Wernham; Antonio J. García-Fernández

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A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors

Silvia Espín^*, Jovan Andevski, Guy Duke, Igor Eulaers, Pilar Gómez-Ramírez, Gunnar Thor Hallgrimsson, Björn Helander, Dorte Herzke, Veerle L.B. Jaspers, Oliver Krone, Rui Lourenço, Pedro María-Mojica, Emma Martínez-López, Rafael Mateo, Paola Movalli, Pablo Sánchez-Virosta, Richard F. Shore, Christian Sonne, Nico W. van den Brink, Bert van HattumAl Vrezec, Chris Wernham, Antonio J. García-Fernández

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Birds of prey, owls and falcons are widely used as sentinel species in raptor biomonitoring programmes. A major current challenge is to facilitate large-scale biomonitoring by coordinating contaminant monitoring activities and by building capacity across countries. This requires sharing, dissemination and adoption of best practices addressed by the Networking Programme Research and Monitoring for and with Raptors in Europe (EURAPMON) and now being advanced by the ongoing international COST Action European Raptor Biomonitoring Facility. The present perspective introduces a schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors. We provide guidance on sample collection with a view to increasing sampling capacity across countries, ensuring appropriate quality of samples and facilitating harmonization of procedures to maximize the reliability, comparability and interoperability of data. The here presented protocol can be used by professionals and volunteers as a standard guide to ensure harmonised sampling methods for contaminant monitoring in raptors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	95-100
Number of pages	6
Journal	Ambio
Volume	50
Issue number	1
Early online date	12 May 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01341-9
Publication status	Published - Jan 2021

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Because chemicals regulation is harmonised within the European Union, a major current challenge is to improve large-scale (pan-European) biomonitoring. This can be addressed by coordinating Europe-wide contaminant monitoring in raptors and by building capacity across countries. This requires sharing, dissemination and adoption of best practices. This was addressed by the Research Networking Programme Research and Monitoring for and with Raptors in Europe (EURAPMON, 2010–2015), funded by the European Science Foundation ( https://www.eurapmon.net/ ) and is now being further advanced by the ongoing international COST Action, European Raptor Biomonitoring Facility (ERBFacility, CA16224, 2017–2021) ( https://erbfacility.eu/ ). Under ERBFacility, three inter-linked scientific arenas are cooperating, the ‘analysis arena’ on ecotoxicological analyses, the ‘collections arena’ on storing and cataloguing raptor samples, and the ‘field arena’ on gathering additional samples and contextual field data (Duke et al. 2018 ; Movalli et al. 2019 ). This pan-European network of ornithologists, veterinary scientists, raptor ecologists, ecotoxicologists and analytical chemists will enable a new generation of research on environmental biomonitoring using raptors. European Raptor Biomonitoring Facility COST Action (CA16224) is supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. Silvia Espín is financially supported by Ministerio de Ciencia , Innovación y Universidades ( Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación contract, IJCI-2017-34653).

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Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades	IJCI-2017-34653
European Science Foundation	CA16224
European Cooperation in Science and Technology

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Best practices
Birds of prey
Falcons
Large-scale biomonitoring
Owls
Pan-European network

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Espín, S., Andevski, J., Duke, G., Eulaers, I., Gómez-Ramírez, P., Hallgrimsson, G. T., Helander, B., Herzke, D., Jaspers, V. L. B., Krone, O., Lourenço, R., María-Mojica, P., Martínez-López, E., Mateo, R., Movalli, P., Sánchez-Virosta, P., Shore, R. F., Sonne, C., van den Brink, N. W., ... García-Fernández, A. J. (2021). A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors. Ambio, 50(1), 95-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01341-9

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