Mercury content and isotopic composition of teeth, and sex and age of skulls of polar bears collected in Svalbard
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LATITUDE: 78.900000 * LONGITUDE: 18.010000 |
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12/02/2012
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Resumo |
We examined the use of mercury (Hg) and nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes in teeth of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard as biotracers of temporal changes in Hg pollution exposure between 1964 and 2003. Teeth were regarded as a good matrix of the Hg exposure, and in total 87 teeth of polar bears were analysed. Dental Hg levels ranged from 0.6 to 72.3 ng/g dry weight and increased with age during the first 10 years of life. A decreasing time trend in Hg concentrations was observed over the recent four decades while no temporal changes were found in the stable isotope ratios of nitrogen (d15N) and carbon (d13C). This suggests that the decrease of Hg concentrations over time was more likely due to a lower environmental Hg exposure in this region rather than a shift in the feeding habits of Svalbard polar bears. |
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application/zip, 2 datasets |
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https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.807120 doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.807120 |
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PANGAEA |
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CC-BY: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Access constraints: unrestricted |
Fonte |
Supplement to: Aubail, Aurore; Dietz, Rune; Rigét, Frank F; Sonne, Christian; Wiig, Øystein; Caurant, Florence (2012): Temporal trend of mercury in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard using teeth as a biomonitoring tissue. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 14(1), 56-63, doi:10.1039/c1em10681c |
Palavras-Chave | #Advanced Mercury Analyser AMA-254, LECO; Age; Age, relative, number of years; Age, standard deviation; Age std dev; Biological sample; BIOS; Cat; Category; d13C; d13C std dev; d15N; d15N std dev; delta 13C; delta 13C, standard deviation; delta 15N; delta 15N, standard deviation; female; Hg; Hg std dev; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Isotope ratio mass spectrometry; male; max; mean; median; Mercury; Mercury, standard deviation; min; N; Sample amount; Sampling date; Svalbard; Svalbard_bear; total; U. maritimus; unknown sex; Ursus maritimus |
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