Polychlorinated camphenes (toxaphenes), polybrominated diphenylethers and other halogenated organic pollutants in glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus) from Svalbard and Bjørnøya (Bear Island)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 293-300

  Herzke, Dorte ^a   Gabrielsen, Geir Wing ^b   Evenset, Anita ^c   Burkow, Ivan C ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Brominated flame retardants; Glaucous gull; Persistent organic pollutants; Toxaphenes

Indexed keywords

FLAME RETARDANTS; IMPURITIES; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

POLLUTANTS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; 2,2',4,4' TETRABROMODIPHENYLETHER; 2,2',4,4',5 PENTABROMODIPHENYLETHER; 2,2',4,4',5,5' HEXABROMOBIPHENYL; 2,2',4,5' TETRABROMOBIPHENYL; 2,2',5,5' TETRABROMOBIPHENYL; 2,4' DICHLORODIPHENYL TRICHLORETHANE; 2,4,6 TRIBROMOPHENYLETHER; 4,4' DIBROMOBIPHENYL; 4,4' DICHLORODIPHENYL TRICHLORETHANE; BROMINE; CAMPHECLOR; CHLORDANE; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; FLAME RETARDANT; HEPTACHLOR EPOXIDE; HEXABROMOBENZENE; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; MIREX; NONACHLOR; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; OXYCHLORDANE; PENTABROMOBIPHENYL; PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOACCUMULATION; HALOGEN; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SEABIRD;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTESTINE; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; LIVER LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEABIRD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INTESTINES; LIVER; MALE; NORWAY; PESTICIDES; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TOXAPHENE;

SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

LARUS; LARUS HYPERBOREUS;

EID: 0037290274     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(02)00217-8     Document Type: Article

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