Persistent organochlorine contaminants in ringed seals (phoca hispida) from the Kara Sea, Russian Arctic

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1745-1755

  Nakata, Haruhiko ^a   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a   Tatsukawa, Ryo ^b   Koyama, Yasuhiro ^c   Miyazaki, Nobuyuki ^c   Belikov, Stanislav ^d   Boltunov, Andrei ^d  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d All Russian Research Institute for Nature Protection   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls; Larga Seal; Organochlorines; Ringed seal; Russian Arctic

Indexed keywords

CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOACCUMULATION; ORGANOCHLORINE; SEAL (ANIMAL);

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIODEGRADATION; BODY BURDEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEAL;

KARA SEA;

ANIMALIA; PHOCA HISPIDA; PHOCA SIBIRICA; PHOCIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031818523     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620170915     Document Type: Article

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