Persistent organic pollutants and metals in the freshwater biota of the Canadian Subarctic and Arctic: An overview

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 351-352, Issue , 2005, Pages 94-147

  Evans, Marlene S ^a   Muir, Derek ^a   Lockhart, W Lyle ^b   Stern, Gary ^c   Ryan, M ^d   Roach, Pat ^e  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Department of Fisheries and Oceans ^*  (Canada)

^c FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^e Government of Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Biota; Canadian Arctic; Freshwater; Mercury; Persistent organic pollutants; Subarctic; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); METALS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WATER;

ARCTIC; BIOTA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; FRESHWATER;

IMPURITIES;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHLORPHENOTANE; COPPER; ENDOSULFAN; MERCURY; METAL DERIVATIVE; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RUBIDIUM; SELENIUM; ZINC;

BIOACCUMULATION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HEAVY METAL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTION; ARCTIC; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ATMOSPHERE; BENTHOS; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING; FISH; FISHERY; FOOD INTAKE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LAKE; LIPID COMPOSITION; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PLANKTON; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIVER; SEDIMENTATION; SUMMER; VOLATILIZATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ARSENIC; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; METALS, HEAVY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SELENIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA;

LOTA LOTA; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 28544453079     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.01.052     Document Type: Review

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