Inland

• Main Authors: Richard Bindler, N. John Anderson, Ingemar Renberg, Carola Malmquist
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.625.1193; http://www.geus.dk/publications/review-greenland-00/gsb189p48-53.pdf

High-latitude ecosystems are inherently sensitive to nat-ural environmental stress as a result of extreme seasonal variations in light and temperature, nutrient limitations, as well as other physical and chemical characteristics; consequently, these regions are quite vulnerable to the addition of pollutant stress. There is a poor under-standing of spatial and temporal patterns of atmos-pheric pollution in the Arctic, because of the lack of monitoring stations and networks for current and past atmospheric deposition. Today, however, the Arctic is recognised as an important focus for long-range trans-port of contaminants, particularly from strong air flows which carry airborne pollutants from industrial regions at lower latitudes, e.g. heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants (POPs). A diverse range of anthro-