Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated compounds in lake food webs from the Canadian High Arctic

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2694-2702

  Lescord, Gretchen L ^a,c   Kidd, Karen A ^a   De Silva, Amila O ^b   Williamson, Mary ^b   Spencer, Christine ^b   Wang, Xiaowa ^b   Muir, Derek C G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; LAKES;

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; CANADIAN HIGH ARCTIC; HIGH ARCTIC LAKES; LOCAL CONTAMINATION; LONG-RANGE ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORTS; PERFLUOROCARBOXYLATES; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATES; POLYFLUORINATED ALKYL SUBSTANCES;

LAKE POLLUTION;

FLUOROTELOMER SULFONATE; FRESH WATER; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROCARBOXYLATE; PERFLUOROETHYLCYCLOHEXANESULFONATE; PERFLUOROSULFONATE; POLYFLUORINATED COMPOUND; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FLUORINATED HYDROCARBON; FLUOROCARBON; PERFLUOROSULFONIC ACID; WATER POLLUTANT;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; FOOD WEB; HABITAT USE; INVERTEBRATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE POLLUTION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CANADA; FOOD WEB; LAKE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; SEDIMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZOOPLANKTON; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ARCTIC; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATE; WATER POLLUTANT;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; CORNWALLIS ISLAND; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; RESOLUTE BAY;

CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; SALVELINUS ALPINUS;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FLUOROCARBON POLYMERS; FOOD CHAIN; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; INVERTEBRATES; LAKES; NUNAVUT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84924084613     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5048649     Document Type: Article

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