Organochlorine residues in harbour porpoises from Southwest Greenland

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 381-391

  Borrell, Asunción ^a   Aguilar, Alex ^a   Cantos, Gemma ^a   Lockyer, Christina ^b   Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter ^c   Jensen, Jette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

DDT; Diet; Inuit; PCB; Phocoena phocoena

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATION; CHLORINE; POLLUTION;

ORGANOCHLORINE RESIDUES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BIOACCUMULATION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; PORPOISE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PORPOISE; SAMPLING; SEA POLLUTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 0347320719     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2003.09.011     Document Type: Article

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