Increasing levels and biomagnification of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Antarctic biota

• Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Main Authors: Goerke, Helmut, Weber, Kurt, Bornemann, Horst, Ramdohr, S., Plötz, Joachim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Antarctic; Elephant Island; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Elephant Seals; Mirounga leonina; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/7132/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2003.08.004; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.17677

Representatives of the Antarctic food web (krill, cephalopod, fish, penguin, seal) of the area around Elephant Island and from the Weddell Sea were analysed for the most recalcitrant organochlorine compounds. Due to sorption of the compounds to sinking particles and accumulation in sediments, two be...