What are the toxicological effects of mercury in Arctic biota?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 443, Issue , 2013, Pages 775-790

  Dietz, Rune ^a   Sonne, Christian ^a   Basu, Niladri ^b   Braune, Birgit ^c   O'Hara, Todd ^d   Letcher, Robert J ^c   Scheuhammer, Tony ^c   Andersen, Magnus ^e   Andreasen, Claus ^f   Andriashek, Dennis ^g   Asmund, Gert ^a   Aubail, Aurore ^a,h   Baagøe, Hans ⁱ   Born, Erik W ^j   Chan, Hing M ^k   Derocher, Andrew E ^l   Grandjean, Philippe ^m   Knott, Katrina ^d   Kirkegaard, Maja ^a   Krey, Anke ^k   Lunn, Nick ^g   Messier, Francoise ⁿ   Obbard, Marty ^o   Olsen, Morten T ^a   Ostertag, Sonja ^k   Peacock, Elizabeth ^p   Renzoni, Aristeo ^q   Rigét, Frank F ^a   Skaare, Janneche Utne ^r   Stern, Gary ^s   Stirling, Ian ^g   Taylor, Mitch ^t   Wiig, Øystein ^u   Wilson, Simon ^v   Aars, Jon ^e   more..

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^f Greenland National Museum and Archives   (Greenland)

^g ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^j GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^o TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^p U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^r NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^t Government of Nunavut   (Canada)

^u UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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

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Author keywords

Birds; Exposure; Fish; Heavy metals; Mammals; Threshold levels

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CANADA; ARCTIC CHAR; ARCTIC MARINE; BELUGA WHALES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BRAIN TISSUE; DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; EXPOSURE; GREENLAND; HIGH CONCENTRATION; POLAR BEARS; THRESHOLD LEVELS; TOP PREDATOR; TOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS; VULNERABLE GROUPS;

BIRDS; FISH; HEAVY METALS; MAMMALS; POPULATION STATISTICS; TISSUE;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; SELENIUM;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BEAR; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOTA; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISH; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NEUROLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SEABIRD; WHALE;

ARCTIC; BELUGA WHALE; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; BIOTA; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN LEVEL; CANADA; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA; DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS; DEMETHYLATION; EGG; FISH; GLOBICEPHALA MELAS; GREENLAND; HAIR LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY LEVEL; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER TOXICITY; MARINE SPECIES; MERCURIALISM; MERCURY BLOOD LEVEL; MERCURY UPTAKE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PILOT WHALE; POLAR BEAR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SEABIRD; SEAL; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MERCURY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GREENLAND;

AVES; CYSTOPHORA (MAMMALIA); CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA; DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS; DELPHINIDAE; GLOBICEPHALA MELAS; MAMMALIA; ODONTOCETI; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84870685461     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.046     Document Type: Review

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