An evaluation of teeth of ringed seals (Phoca hispida) from Greenland as a matrix to monitor spatial and temporal trends of mercury and stable isotopes

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 5137-5146

  Aubail, Aurore ^a,b   Dietz, Rune ^a   Rigét, Frank ^a   Simon Bouhet, Benoît ^b   Caurant, Florence ^b  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon; Mercury; Nitrogen; Phoca hispida; Ringed seal; Spatial and temporal trends; Stable isotopes; Teeth

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; PHOCA HISPIDA; RINGED SEALS; STABLE ISOTOPES; TEETH; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

ANIMALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; NUTRITION;

MERCURY (METAL);

CARBON; MERCURY; NITROGEN;

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; GLOBAL CHANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PINNIPED; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOOTH;

AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENLAND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; MALE; MERCURY; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PHOCA; TOOTH; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ARCTIC; DISKO ISLAND; GREENLAND; SCORESBY SUND;

ANIMALIA; PHOCA HISPIDA;

EID: 77956057706     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.038     Document Type: Article

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