Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of organochlorines in a marine food web at a pristine site in iceland

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 800-809

  Skarphedinsdottir, Halldora ^a   Gunnarsson, Karl ^b   Gudmundsson, Gudmundur A ^c   Nfon, Erick ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

^c ICELANDIC INSTITUTE OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIVALVE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDE; DDT; FOOD WEB; GASTROPOD; HCH; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PERCIFORM; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SEABIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CEPPHUS GRYLLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD WEB; ICELAND; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LACUNA VINCTA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PHOLIS GUNNELLUS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; SHELLFISH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE LEVEL; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMALS; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; ICELAND; MYTILUS EDULIS; SNAILS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ICELAND;

BIVALVIA; CEPPHUS GRYLLE; GASTROPODA; LACUNA VINCTA; MOLLUSCA; MYTILUS EDULIS; PHOLIS GUNNELLUS;

EID: 77952089483     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-009-9376-x     Document Type: Article

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