Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in tissues of the Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus from NE Greenland

• Main Author: CORSOLINI, SIMONETTA
• Other Authors: Corsolini, Simonetta
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Somniosus microcephalus; Greenland Sea; legacy and emergent POPs; TEQs; Greenland; Tromsø; Kong Oscar Fjord; East Greenland; Kong Oscar fjord; Tunu; University of Tromsø
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1010491

The Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus was indexed as near threatened by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2012. It is an interesting species from an ecotoxicologiacl point of view being a long-lived and slow-growing deep-sea shark. Population dynamics, biology, and life cycle knowledg...