Perfluorinated compounds in the Antarctic region: ocean circulation provides prolonged protection from distant sources

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: Bengtson Nash, Susan, R. Rintoul, Stephen, Kawaguchi, So, Staniland, Iain, van den Hoff, John, Tierney, Megan, Bossi, Rossana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2010
• Subjects: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Griffith; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/34468; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2010.05.024

In order to investigate the extent to which Perfluorinated Contaminants (PFCs) have permeated the Southern Ocean food web to date, a range of Antarctic, sub-Antarctic and Antarctic-migratory biota were analysed for key ionic PFCs. Based upon the geographical distribution pattern and ecology of biota...