Concentrations of mercury and stable isotope values of carbon and nitrogen in polar bear hair from the Norwegian and Russian Arctic (v.2)

• Main Authors: Routti, Heli, Lippold, Anna
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2021
• Subjects: BIOTA; ENVIRONMENT; OCEANS; Svalbard,Russian Arctic; other; EARTH SCIENCE; HUMAN DIMENSIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; HEAVY METALS CONCENTRATION; Mercury; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; polar bear; Arctic; Chukchi Sea; Kara Sea; Laptev Sea; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Chukchi; laptev
• Online Access: http://data.npolar.no/dataset/296a5c63-f766-4a10-aa98-a7fe5c00cbb0

The data show hair concentrations of total mercury (THg) from adult (>4 years) female polar bears from the Norwegian Arctic (Svalbard archipelago; n=41) captured between 2008/2011 and 2016, and in male and female polar bears from the Russian Arctic (Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, and Chukchi Sea; n=58) of...