An assessment of the toxicological significance of anthropogenic contaminants in Canadian arctic wildlife

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Fisk, Aaron T., De Wit, Cynthia A., Wayland, Mark, Kuzyk, Zou Zou, Burgess, Neil, Letcher, Robert, Braune, Birgit, Norstrom, Ross, Blum, Susan Polischuk, Sandau, Courtney, Lie, Elisabeth, Larsen, Hans Jørgen S., Skaare, Janneche Utne, Muir, Derek C.G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Biological effects; Cadmium; Canadian arctic; DDT; Fish; Heavy metals; Mammals; Mercury; Organochlorines; PCB; PCDD/F; Seabirds; Selenium; Nunavut; Saglek Bay; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*; Burbot; Cepphus grylle; Common Eider; Delphinapterus leucas; Somateria mollissima; Ursus maritimus
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/426; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.01.051

Anthropogenic contaminants have been a concern in the Canadian arctic for over 30 years due to relatively high concentrations of bioaccumulating and biomagnifying organochlorine contaminants (OCs) and toxic metals found in some arctic biota and humans. However, few studies have addressed the potenti...