Long-term changes of mercury, lead and persistent organic pollutants in arctic environments

• Main Author: Lindeberg, Carola
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap 2007
• Subjects: Lake sediment; time trends; chlordane; hexachlorobenzene; mercury; lead; soil; climate changes; Arctic; Greenland; Sweden; Swedish mountains; PCB; PBDE; pesticides; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Kangerlussuaq; Arctic pollution
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1060

The Arctic represents a huge area with poor infrastructure contributing to limited possibilities to establish monitoring and research programs. From the investigations that have been performed we know that the arctic environment is affected by anthropogenic emissions from lower latitudes, but knowle...