The polar bear as a biological indicator of the environmental mercury burden. Arctic 35(3

ABSTRACT. 128 fresh (current) and 18 preserved (museum) polar bear hair samples were subjected to mercury analysis. Mercury levels ranging from <0.5-44.3 ppm were observed in the fresh samples with a geographic distribution showing higher levels in the western Arctic and substantially lower level...

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Main Authors: R. D. P. Eaton, J. P. Farant
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1982
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.532.5831
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic35-3-422.pdf