Spatial trends of perfluorochemicals in harbor seals (phoca vitulina) from danish waters

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 414, Issue , 2012, Pages 732-737

  Dietz, Rune ^a   Rigét, Frank F ^a   Galatius, Anders ^a   Sonne, Christian ^a   Teilmann, Jonas ^a   Bossi, Rossana ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Denmark; Geographic trend; Harbor seal; Liver; Perfluorinated chemicals; Phoca vitulina

Indexed keywords

DENMARK; GEOGRAPHIC TREND; HARBOR SEAL; PERFLUORINATED CHEMICALS; PHOCA VITULINA;

LIVER; TISSUE;

WATER ANALYSIS;

PERFLUORO COMPOUND; WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DETECTION METHOD; FLUORINE; HARBOR; MARINE POLLUTION; PINNIPED; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; LIVER; NORTH SEA; PHOCINE DISTEMPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DEMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUOROCARBONS; GEOGRAPHY; PHOCA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; DENMARK; LIMFJORDEN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA;

EID: 84855565009     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.09.048     Document Type: Article

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