Temporal trends of legacy POPs in Arctic biota, an update

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2874-2884

  Rigét, Frank ^a   Bignert, Anders ^b   Braune, Birgit ^c   Stow, Jason ^d   Wilson, Simon ^e  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Government of Canada   (Canada)

^e Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme AMAP Secretariat   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Biota; POPs; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CHANGE; ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; CANADIAN ARCTIC; ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; EXPONENTIAL TRENDS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; META-ANALYSIS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PRIMARY SOURCES; RELATIVE STABILITIES; ROBUST METHODS; STATISTICAL POWER; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; MARINE POLLUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ALPHA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; CAMPHECLOR; CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIELDRIN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; MIREX; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; PHOTOMIREX; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOTA; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CYCLE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; POWER ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY;

CHLORDAN; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; DIELDRIN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HEPTACHLOR EPOXIDE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LINDANE; MIREX; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; TIME; TOXAPHENE;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953686384     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.07.036     Document Type: Article

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