EVIDENCE OF AIRBORNE CONTAMINATION OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS

• Main Authors: D Landers, T Blett, J Stoddard, D Muir, C Shaver
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Carrera; Haugen
• Online Access: http://oaspub.epa.gov/eims/eimsapi.dispdetail?deid=62472

There is emerging evidence that mountain ecosystems in the western USA are receiving deposition of persistent bioaccumulative toxicants with origins in North America and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. The toxic materials include metals and organic compounds. Of particular interest is Mercury...