Essential and non-essential element concentrations in two sleeper shark species collected in arctic waters

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 281-290

  McMeans, Bailey C ^a   Borgå, Katrine ^b   Bechtol, William R ^c   Higginbotham, David ^d   Fisk, Aaron T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Greenland shark; Hepatic tissue; Metals; Pacific sleeper shark; Somniosus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOLOGY; MARINE BIOLOGY; METALS; TISSUE; TOXICITY;

GREENLAND SHARK; HEPATIC TISSUE; PACIFIC SLEEPER SHARK; SEABIRDS; SOMNIOSUS;

MAMMALS;

TRACE ELEMENT; TRACE METAL;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MARINE MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEABIRD; SHARK; TOXICITY;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MARINE MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; SEABIRD; SHARK; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; MERCURY; METALS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SELENIUM; SHARKS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND; UNITED STATES;

CHONDRICHTHYES; MAMMALIA; SOMNIOSUS; SOMNIOSUS MICROCEPHALUS; SOMNIOSUS PACIFICUS;

EID: 34248154872     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.10.039     Document Type: Article

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