Temporal trends and future predictions of mercury concentrations in Northwest Greenland polar bear (Ursus maritimus) hair

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1458-1465

  Dietz, R ^a   Born, E W ^b   Riget F ^a   Aubail, A ^a,c   Sonne, C ^a   Drimmie, R ^d   Basu, N ^e  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONCENTRATION; DRY WEIGHT; GREENLAND; MEDIAN CONCENTRATION; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; POLAR BEARS; TARGET ORGANS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TOTAL MERCURIES;

MERCURY (METAL);

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

MERCURY; POLLUTANT;

BEAR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FUTURE PROSPECT; HAIR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GREENLAND; HAIR; KIDNEY; LIVER; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; POLAR BEAR; TARGET ORGAN; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TREND STUDY; WILDLIFE; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BEAR; CHEMISTRY; POLLUTANT;

URSUS MARITIMUS;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GREENLAND; HAIR; MERCURY; URSIDAE;

EID: 79951693454     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1028734     Document Type: Article

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