Papers published

2024

• Rosing-Asvid A, Löytynoja A, Momigliano P, Hansen RG, Scharff-Olsen CH,  Valtonen M, Kammonen J, Dietz R, Rigét FF, Ferguson SH, Lydersen C, Kovacs KM, Holland DM, Jernvall J, Auvinen P, Olsen MT (2023) An evolutionarily distinct ringed seal in the Ilulissat Icefjord. Molecular Ecology, 32 (22), doi.org/10.1111/mec.17163

2023

• Rebryk, A.; Koschorreck, J.; Haglund, P., Temporal trends of lipophilic organic contaminants in blue mussel (1994–2017) and eelpout (1994–2017) from the southern Baltic Sea. Science of The Total Environment 2023, 897, 166282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166282.

2022

• Haglund, P.; Rebryk, A., Biomagnification and temporal trends of new and emerging dechloranes and related transformation products in Baltic Sea biota. Environmental Science & Technology Letters 2022, 9, (5), 406–412. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00171.

• Mauritsson, K. ;Desforges, J‑P.; Harding, K.C.: Maternal Transfer and Long‑Term Population Effects of PCBs in Baltic Grey Seals Using a New Toxicokinetic–Toxicodynamic Population Model. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2022) 83:376–394. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-022-00962-3

• Rebryk, A.; Gallampois, C.; Haglund, P., A time-trend guided non-target screening study of organic contaminants in Baltic Sea harbor porpoise (1988–2019), guillemot (1986–2019), and white-tailed sea eagle (1965–2017). Science of The Total Environment 2022, 829, 154620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154620.

• Rebryk, A.; Haglund, P., Comprehensive non-target screening of biomagnifying organic contaminants in the Baltic Sea food web. Science of The Total Environment 2022, 851, 158280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158280.

• Rebryk, A. Comprehensive non-target screening to find and identify new biomagnifying organic contaminants in Baltic Sea top consumers. Dissertation, Umeå University, Umeå, 2022.

• Xiaodong Liu, Suzanne Rønhøj Schjøtt, Sandra M. Granquist, Aqqalu Rosing- Asvid. Rune Dietz, Jonas Teilmann, Anders Galatius, Kristina Cammen, Greg O’Corry- Crowe, Karin Harding, Tero Härkönen, Ailsa Hall, Emma L. Carrol, Yumi Kobayashi, Mike Hammill, Garry Stenson, Anne Kirstine  Frie, Christian Lydersen, Kit M. Kovacs, Liselotte W. Andersen, Joseph I. Hoffman, Simon J. Goodman, Filipe G. Vieira, Rasmus Heller, Ida Moltke, Morten Tange Olsen. 2022. Origin and expansion of the world’s most widespread pinniped: Range- wide population genomics of the harbour seal (Phoca  vitulina)

2020

• Cervin, L., Harkonen, T., Harding, KC. 2020. Multiple stressors and data deficient populations; a comparative life-history approach sheds new light on the extinction risk of the highly vulnerable Baltic harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). Environment International 144, 106076. 
   
• Dietz, R., Sonne, C., Albert, C., JO Bustes, TK Christensen, TM Ciesielski, J Danielsen, S Dastnai, M Eens, KE Erikstad, J Fort, A Galatius, S-E Garbus, O Gilg, S A Hanssen, B Helander, M Helberg, VLB Jaspers, B M Jenssen, K Kauhala, LA Kyhn, AL Labansen, MM Larsen, U Lindstøm, TK Reiertsen, FF Rigét, A Roos, J Strand, H Strøm, S Sveegaard, J Søndergaard, J Sun, J Teilmann, OR Therkildsen, RS Tjørnløv, S Wilson, I Eulaers 2021. A risk assessment of the effects of mercury on Baltic Sea, Greater North Sea and North Atlantic wildlife, fish and bivalves. Environment International 146, 106178. 
   
• Dietz, R., Sonne, C., Jenssen, B.M., Das, K., de Wit, C.A., Harding, K.C., Siebert, U., Olsen, M. T. 2020. The Baltic Sea: An ecosystem with multiple stressors.
   
• Garbus, S. E., Christensen, J. P., Lyngs, P., Eulaers, I., Mosbech, A., Dietz, R., Garbus, P., Huusmann, R., Sonne, C. Changes in blood biochemistry of incubating Baltic Common Eiders (Somateria mollisima). Journal of Ornithology, Vol. 161, No. 1, 01.2020, p. 25-33.

• Lam, S S; McPartland, M; N B; Garbus, S E; Lierhagen, S; Lyngs, P; Dietz, R; Therkildsen, O R; Christensen, T K; Tjørnløv, R S; Kanstrup, N; Fox, A D.; Sørensen, I H; Arzel, C; Krøkje, Å; Sonne, C. Lead concentrations in blood from incubating common eiders (Somateria mollissima) in the Baltic Sea. Environment International, Vol. 137, 105582, 04.2020.
   
• Lam, S. S., Tjørnløv, R. S., Therkildsen, O. R., Christensen, T. K., Madsen, J., Daugaard-Petersen, T., Ortiz, J. M. C., Peng, W., Charbonneaux, M., Rivas, E. I., Garbus, S. E., Lyngs, P., Siebert, U., Dietz, R., Maier-Sam, K., Lierz, M., Tombre, I. M., Andersen-Ranberg, E. U., Sonne, C. Seroprevalence of avian influenza in Baltic common eiders (Somateria mollissima) and pink-footed geese (Anser brachyrhynchus). Environment International, Vol. 142, 105873, 09.2020.
   
• Ma, N. L., Hansen, M., Therkildsen, O. R., Christensen, T. K., Tjørnløv, R. S., Garbus, S. E., Lyngs, P., Peng, W., Lam, S. S., Krogh, A. K. H., Andersen-Ranberg, E., Søndergaard, J., Rigét, F. F., Dietz, R., Sonne, C. Body mass, mercury exposure, biochemistry and untargeted metabolomics of incubating common eiders (Somateria mollissima) in three Baltic colonies. Environment International, Vol. 142, 105866, 09.2020

• Rebryk, A., Haglund, P. Non-targeted screening workflows for gas chromatography–high-resolution mass spectrometry analysis and identification of biomagnifying contaminants in biota samples. Anal Bioanal Chem, 11.2020.
   
• Schmidt, B., Sonne, C., Nachtsheim, D., Dietz, R., Oheim, R., Rolvien, T., Persson, S., Amling, M., Siebert, U. Variation in skull bone mineral density of ringed seals (Phoca hispida) from the Gulf of Bothnia and West Greenland between 1829 and 2019. Environment International, Vol. 143, 105968, 10.2020.

• Siebert, U., Blanchet, M. A., Teilmann, J., Anderson Hansen, K., Kristensen, J., Bunskoek, P., Dietz, R., Desforges, J.P., Sonne, C., Desportes, G. Haematology and clinical blood chemistry in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the inner Danish waters. Environment International, Vol. 143, 105937, 10.2020.
   
• Silva, W. T. A. F., Harding, K. C., Marques, G. M., Bäcklin, B. M., Sonne, C., Dietz, R., Kauhala, K., & Desforges, J-P. (2020). Life cycle bioenergetics of the gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) in the Baltic Sea: Population response to environmental stress. Environment International, 145, [106145]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106145
   
• Sonne, C., Lakemeyer, J., Desforges, J. P., Eulaers, I., Persson, S., Stokholm, I., Galatius, A., Gross, S., Gonnsen, K., Lehnert, K., Andersen-Ranberg, E. U., Tange Olsen, M., Dietz, R., Siebert, U. A review of pathogens in selected Baltic Sea indicator species. Environment International, Vol. 137, No. April, 105565, 2020.
   
• Sonne, C., Siebert, U., Gonnsen, K., Desforges, J. P., Eulaers, I., Persson, S., Roos, A., Bäcklin, B. M., Kauhala, K., Tange Olsen, M., Harding, K. C., Treu, G., Galatius, A., Andersen-Ranberg, E., Gross, S., Lakemeyer, J., Lehnert, K., Lam, S. S., Peng, W., Dietz, R. Health effects from contaminant exposure in Baltic Sea birds and marine mammals : A review. Environment International, Vol. 139, 105725, 2020.2.
   
• Spaan, K. M., van Noordenburg, C., Plassmann, M. M., Schultes, L., Shaw, S., Berger, M., Heide-Jørgensen, M. P., Rosing-Asvid, A., Granquist, S. M., Dietz, R., Sonne, C., Rigét, F., Roos, A., Benskin, J. P. Fluorine Mass Balance and Suspect Screening in Marine Mammals from the Northern Hemisphere. Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 54, No. 7, 2020, p. 4046-4058.
   
• Sun, J; Covaci, A; Bustnes, J O; Jaspers, V. L B; Helander, B.; Bårdsen, B J; Boertmann, D M; Dietz, R; Labansen, A L; Lepoint, G; Schulz, R; Malarvannan, G ; Sonne, C; Thorup, K; Tøttrup, A P.; Zubrod, J P.; Eens, M; Eulaers, I. Temporal trends of legacy organochlorines in different white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) subpopulations: A retrospective investigation using archived feathers. Environment International, Vol. 138, 105618, 05.2020.
   

2019

• Sonne, C., Vorkamp, K., Bossi, R., Søndergård, J., Dietz, R., 2019. Pollutants in seal and whale meat and human exposure (Miljøgifte i sæl- og hvalkød og human eksponering). Miljø og sundhed 25.3. 
   

• Desforges J.P., Hall A, McConnell B., Rosing Asvid A., Barber J.L., Brownlow A., De Guise S., Eulaers I., Jepson P.D., Letcher R.J., Levin M., Ross PS., Sonne C., Dietz R. 2019. Response to L. Witting: PCBs still a major risk for global killer whale populations. Marine Mammal Science Letter. DOI: 10.1111/mms.12615  
   
• Sonne, C., Alstrup, A.K.O., Ok Y.S., Dietz R., Kanstrup N., 2019. Time to ban lead hunting ammunition. Science 366 (6468), 961-962. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz8150
   
• Jiachen, S., Bossi, R., Bustnes, J.O., Helander, B., Boertmann, D., Dietz, R., Herzke, D., Jaspers, V.L.B., Labansen, A.L., Lepoint, G., Schulz, R., Sonne, C., Thorup, K., Tøttrup, A.P., Zubrod, J.P., Eens, M., Eulaers, I., 2019. White-Tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) Body Feathers Document Spatiotemporal Trends of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in the Northern Environment. Environmental Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b03514
   
• Kauhala, K., Kurkilahti, M. 2019. Delayed effects of prey fish quality and winter temperature during the birth year on adult size and reproductive rate of Baltic grey seals. Mammal Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-019-00454-1
   
• Kanstrup, N., Chriél, M., Dietz, R., Søndergaard, J., Balsby, T.J.S., Sonne, C. 2019. Lead and Other Trace Elements in Danish Birds of Prey. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 77: 359-367. DOI: https ://doi.org/10.1007/s0024 4-019-00646 -5
   
• Garbus, S.E., Krogh, A.K.H., Jacobsen, M.L., Sonne, C. 2019. Pathology and Plasma Biochemistry of Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) Males Wintering in the Danish Part of the Western Baltic. Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery. 33(3) 302-307. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1647/2018-379
   
• Garbus, S.E., Christensen, J.P., Lyngs, P., Eulaers, I., Mosbech, A., Dietz, R., Garbus, P., Hussmann, R., Sonne, C. 2019. Changes in blood biochemistry of incubating Baltic Common Eiders (Somateria mollisima). Journal of Ornithology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-019-01708-0
   
• Jiachen, S., Bustnes, J.O., Helander, B., Bårdsen, B-J., Boertmann, D., Dietz, R., Jaspers, V.L.B., Labansen, A.L., Lepoint, G., Schulz, R., Søndergaard, J., Sonne, C., Thorup, K., Tøttrup, A.P., Zubrod, J.P., Eens, M., Eulaers, I., 2019. Temporal trends of mercury differ across three northern white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) subpopulations. Science of The Total Environment 687: 77-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.027
   
• Garbus, S.E., Christensen, J.P., Buchmann, K., Jessen, T.B., Lyngs, P., Jacobsen, M.L., Garbus, G., Lund, E., Garbus, P.G., Madsen, J.J., Thorup, K., Sonne, C. 2019. Haematology, blood biochemistry, parasites and pathology of common eider (Somateria mollisima) males during a mortality event in the Baltic. Science of The Total Environment 683: 559-567. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.281
   
• Sonne, C., Vorkamp, K., Galatius, A., Kyhn, L., Teilmann, J., Bossi, R., Søndergaard, J., Eulaers, I., J-P Desforges, Siebert, U., Dietz, R. Human exposure to PFOS and mercury through meat from baltic harbour seals (Phoca vitulina). 2019. Environmental Research 175: 376-383. DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2019.05.026
   
• Yuan, B., Vorkamp, K., Roos, A.M., Faxneld, S., Sonne, C., Garbus, S.E., Lind, Y., Eulaers, I., Hellström, P., Dietz, R., Persson, S., Bossi, R. and de Wit, C.A. 2019. Accumulation of Short‑, Medium‑, and Long-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins in Marine and Terrestrial Animals from Scandinavia. Environmental Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b06518
   
• Stokholm, I., Härkönen, T., Harding, K.C., Sirbert, S., Lehnert, K., Dietz, R., Teilmann, J., Galatius, A., Havmøller, L.W., Carroll, E.L., Hall, A. and Olsen, M.T. 2019. Phylogenomic insights to the origin and spread of phocine distemper virus in European harbour seals in 1988 and 2002. Diseases of aquatic organisms Vol. 133: 47-56. DOI: 10.3354/dao03328
   
• Dietz R, C Sonne, J-P Desforges, I Eulaers, R. Letcher, P. Jepson 2019. Killer whales calls for further protection. Environment International Correspondence 126: 443-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.02.060

2018

• Garbus, S., Lyngs, P., Garbus, M., Garbus, P., Eulaers, I., Mosbech, A., Dietz, R., Gilchrist, H.G., Christensen, J. P. and Sonne, C. 2018. Incubation Behaviour of Common Eiders Somateria Mollissima in the Central Baltic: Nest Attendance and Loss in Body Mass. ACROCEPHALUS 39 (178/179): 91-100. DOI: 10.1515/acro-2018-0008
   
• Garbus, S., Lyngs, P., Popp, A., Christensen, J. P. and Sonne, C. 2018. Candling and field atlas of early egg development in Common Eiders Somateria mollissima in the central Baltic. ACROCEPHALUS 39 (178/179): 85-90. DOI: 10.1515/acro-2018-0007
   
• Kauhala, K., Korpinen, S., Lehtiniemi, M. and Raitaniemi, J. 2018. Reproductive rate of a top predator, the grey seal, as an indicator of the changes in the Baltic food web. Ecological Indicators 102: 693-703. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.03.022
   
• Scharff-Olsen C.H., Galatius, A., Teilmann, J., Dietz, R., Andersen, S.M., Jarnit, S., Kroner, A., Botnen, A.B., Lundström, K., Møller, P.R., and Olsen, M.T. Diet of seals in the Baltic Sea region: a synthesis of published and new data from 1968 to 2013. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 2018, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsy159
   
• Sokolova, M., Buchmann, K., Huwer, B., Kania, P.W., Krumme, U., Galatius, A., Hemmer-Hansen, J. and Behrens, J.W. Spatial patterns in infection of cod Gadus morhua with the seal-associated liver worm Contracaecum osculatum from the Skagerrak to the central Baltic Sea. 2018. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 606, 105-118. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12773
   
• Desforges, J.P., Hall, A., McConnell, B., Rosing-Asvid, A., Barber, J.L., Brownlow, A., De Guise, S., Eulaers, I., Jepson, P.D., Letcher, R.J., Levin, M., Ross, P.S., Samarra, F., Víkingson, G., Sonne, C. and Dietz, R. Predicting global killer whale population collaps from PCB pollution. 2018. Science vol. 361, issue 6409 pp. 1373-1376. https://doi.10.1126/science.aat1953
   
• Sonne, C., Jepson, P.D., Desforges, J.P., Alstrup, A.K.O., Olsen, M.T., Eulaers, I., Hansen, M., Letcher, R.J., McKinney, M.A. and Dietz, R. Pollution threatens toothed whales. Letter in Science. 2018, http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav2403
   
• Harding K.C., Salmon M., Teilmann, J., Dietz, R. and Harkonen T. Population Wide Decline in Somatic Growth in Harbor Seals—Early Signs of Density Dependence. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2018, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00059
   
• Kauhala K., Bergenius M., Isomurso M., Raitaniemi J. Reproductive rate and nutritional status of Baltic ringed seals. Mammal Research. 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-018-0381-1
   
• Garbus SE., Lyngs P., Christensen JP., Buchmann K., Eulaers I., Mosbech A., Dietz R., Gilchrist HG., Sonne C. Common eider (Somateria mollissima) body condition and parasitic load during a mortality event in the Baltic Proper. Avian Biol. Res., 11, 2018, 167-172
   
• Desforges JP., Bandoro C., Shehata L., Sonne C., Dietz R., Puryear W., Runstadler J. 2018. Environmental contaminant mixtures modulate in vitro influenza infection. Science of the total Environment 634, 20–28.  
   
• Saremi, S., Isaksson, M., Harding, K. 2018. Bio accumulation of radioactive caesium in marine mammals in the Baltic Sea – Reconstruction of a historical time series. Science of the total Environment 631-632, 7-12. DOI:  10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.282. 
   
• Sonne, C., Andersen-Ranberg, E., Rajala, E.L., et al. 2018. Seroprevalence for Brucella spp. in Baltic ringed seals (Phoca hispida) and East Greenland harp (Pagophilus groenlandicus) and hooded (Cystophora cristata) seals. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 198, 14-18. DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2018.02.005. 

2017

• Hansson, S., Bergström, U., Bonsdorff, E., Härkönen, T., Jepsen, N., Kautsky, L., Lundström, K., Lunneryd, SG., Ovegård, M., Salmi, J., Sendek, D., Vetemaa, M., Hunsicker, M. 2017. Competition for the fish – fish extraction from the Baltic Sea by humans, aquatic mammals, and birds. ICES Journal of Marine Science. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsx207
   
• Pertoldi, C., Jensen, L., Olsen Alstrup, A.K., Lajord Munk, O., Bæk Pedersen, T., Sonne, C., Dietz, R., Daugaard-Petersen, T., Kortegaard, H.E., Tange Olsen, M., Hårding, K., Hammer Jensen, T., 2017. Prevalence of skull pathologies in European harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) during 1981-2014. Mamm Res DOI 10.1007/s13364-017-0340-2    
   
• Desforges, J.-P., Levin, M., Jasperse, L., De Guise, S., Eulaers, I., Letcher, R.J., Acquarone, M., Nordøy, E., Folkow, L.P., Hammer Jensen, T., Grøndahl, C., Bertelsen, M.F., St. Leger, J., Almunia, J., Sonne, C., Dietz, R., 2017. Effects of Polar Bear and Killer Whale Derived Contaminant Cocktails on Marine Mammal Immunity. Environ. Sci. Technol. acs.est.7b03532. doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b03532