Congener-specific accumulation and patterns of chlorinated and brominated contaminants in adult male walruses from Svalbard, Norway

• Main Authors: Kovacs, Kit M., Wolkers, Hans, Lydersen, Christian, van Bavel, Bert, Ericson, Ingrid, Skoglund, Eli
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2008
• Subjects: BIOTA; biology; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; CARNIVORES; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; Arctic; Svalbard; Norway; Jan Mayen; North Atlantic; walrus*
• Online Access: http://data.npolar.no/dataset/815288eb-846d-51ba-a9fd-0047edb8ccd0

Blubber samples from 17 adult, male walruses were sampled in eastern Svalbard and analyzed for chlorinated and brominatedcontaminants. A wide range of contaminants were detected, including PCBs (mean 2000; 95% range 1165–4005 ng/g lipid), DDE(mean 100: 95% range 50–310) ng/g lipid), chlordanes (mean...