Metabolic Concentration of Lipid Soluble Organochlorine Burdens in Humpback Whales Through Migration and Fasting

• Published in: Environmental Science & Technology
• Main Authors: Bengtson Nash, Susan, A. Waugh, Courtney, Schlabach, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 2013
• Subjects: Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry); Antarctic; Arctic; Griffith; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; baleen whales; Zooplankton
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/56104; https://doi.org/10.1021/es401441n

Southern hemisphere humpback whales undertake the longest migrations and associated periods of fasting of any mammal. Fluctuations in lipid energy stores are known to profoundly affect the toxicokinetics of lipophilic organochlorine compound (OC) burdens. Results from blubber biopsy sampling of adul...