Walrus teeth as biomonitors of trace elements in Arctic marine ecosystems, 1945-2014

• Main Authors: Casey Clark, Lara Horstmann, Nicole Misarti
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2021
• Subjects: Arctic marine mammals; Contaminants; Heavy metals; LA-ICP-MS; Marine mammals; trace elements; Odobenus rosmarus divergens; Arctic; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Pacific; Chukchi; Odobenus rosmarus; walrus*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2J960B5D

Effective biomonitoring requires an understanding of the factors driving concentrations of the substances or compounds of interest in the tissues of studied organisms. Biomonitoring of trace elements, and heavy metals in particular, has been the focus of much research; however, the complex roles man...