Seasonality in contaminant accumulation in Arctic marine pelagic food webs using trophic magnification factor as a measure of bioaccumulation

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1026-1035

  Hallanger, Ingeborg G ^a,b   Warner, Nicholas A ^c   Ruus, Anders ^d   Evenset, Anita ^d   Christensen, Guttorm ^d   Herzke, Dorte ^c   Gabrielsen, Geir W ^a   Borgå, Katrine ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biomagnification; Climate change; Persistent organic pollutants; Seasonality; Trophic magnification factors

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC MARINE; BIOMAGNIFICATION; BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; CHLORINATED PESTICIDES; FOOD WEBS; HIGHER-DEGREE; MAGNIFICATION FACTORS; PELAGIC FOOD WEB; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SVALBARD; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPHIC MAGNIFICATION FACTORS; TROPHIC POSITION;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; FLAME RETARDANTS; MARINE POLLUTION; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; FLAME RETARDANT; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; NITROGEN 15; PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; FOOD WEB; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; SEABIRD; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; FOOD WEB; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PELAGIC SPECIES; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEABIRD; SEASONAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIRDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FISHES; FLAME RETARDANTS; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEASONS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; KONGSFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 79953761073     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.488     Document Type: Article

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