Satellite telemetry informs PCB source apportionment in a mobile, high trophic lemel marine mammal: The ringed seal (Pusa hispida)

• Published in: Environmental Science & Technology
• Main Authors: Brown, Tanya M., Luque, Sebastian, Sjare, Becky, Fisk, Aaron T., Helbing, Caren C., Reimer, Ken J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2014
• Subjects: Canada; Saglek Bay; Pusa hispida; ringed seal
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/362; https://doi.org/10.1021/es504010q

Marine mammals are typically poor indicators of point sources of environmental contaminants as a consequence of their often complex feeding ecologies and extensive movements, all of which mask the contributions of specific inputs. The release of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by a military radar s...