Circumpolar pattern of mercury and cadmium in ringed seals

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 351-352, Issue , 2005, Pages 312-322

  Riget, Frank ^a   Muir, Derek ^b   Kwan, Michael ^c   Savinova, Tatiana ^d   Nyman, Madeleine ^e   Woshner, Victoria ^f   O'Hara, Todd ^g  

^a Royal Library   (Denmark)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Nunavik Research Centre   (Canada)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f Wildlife Health Consultants   (United States)

^g DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Arctic; Cadmium; Canadian Arctic; Mercury; Ringed seals; Russia

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

ALASKA; ARCTIC; RINGED SEALS;

MERCURY (METAL);

CADMIUM; MERCURY;

BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PINNIPED; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CANADA; GEOLOGY; KIDNEY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; KIDNEY; LIVER; MERCURY; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHOCA; RUSSIA; SVALBARD; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; PHOCA HISPIDA;

EID: 28444478690     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.05.032     Document Type: Article

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