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Brominated flame retardants and biomagnification factors in marine species in...
BACKGROUND: Concentrations of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are reported to increase in marine ecosystems. OBJECTIVES: Characterize exposure to BFRs in animals from... -
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Rates of seropositivity for Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in polar bears and m...
Little is known about the prevalence of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii in the arctic marine food chain of Svalbard, Norway. In this study, plasma samples were analyzed for T.... -
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Contamination and invertebrate presence on food transported to Antarctica
To understand fully the risk of biological invasions, it is necessary to quantify propagule pressure along all introduction pathways. In the Antarctic region, importation of... -
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Environmental characteristics, and growth traits and leaf chemistry of tundra...
Understanding plant trait responses to elevated temperatures in the Arctic is critical in light of recent and continuing climate change, especially because these traits act as... -
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Results from a stable isotope tracer experiment in Potter Cove, King George I...
Antarctic meiofauna is still strongly understud- ied, and so is its trophic position in the food web. Primary producers, such as phytoplankton, and bacteria may repre- sent... -
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Chlorophyll a concentration and zooplankton abundance and biomass below melti...
Early summer in the Arctic with extensive ice melt and break-up represents a dramatic change for sympagic-pelagic fauna below seasonal sea ice. As part of the International... -
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Travel time and speed of gray whales and amphipod abundance along Chukotka Pe...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate summer and fall residency and habitat selection by gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus, together with the biomass of benthic amphipod... -
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Seawater chemistry, nutrients, chlorophyll a, and growth rate of Phaeocystis ...
Phaeocystis globosa (Prymnesiophyceae) is an ecologically dominating phytoplankton species in many areas around the world. It plays an important role in both the global sulfur... -
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Stable isotopes, PCBs and pesticide concentrations in zooplankton, seawater a...
Differences in bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) between fjords characterized by different water masses were investigated by comparing POP concentrations,... -
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Total length, and lipid and toxaphene content in blubber of minke whales (B. ...
Toxaphene contamination of minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) from North Atlantic waters was examined for the first time. Total toxaphene and SumCHB (sum of 11... -
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Carbon/Nitrogen ratio of plant tissues and biomass of belowground consumers a...
Theory and observation indicate that changes in the rate of primary production can alter the balance between the bottom-up influences of plants and resources and the top-down... -
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Coastal erosion dynamics and storm characteristics of Bykovsky Peninsula
This study investigates the rate of erosion during the 1951-2006 period on the Bykovsky Peninsula, located north-east of the harbour town of Tiksi, north Siberia. Its coastline,... -
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Arctic aboveground tundra biomass dynamics between 1982 and 2010
Numerous studies have evaluated the dynamics of Arctic tundra vegetation throughout the past few decades, using remotely sensed proxies of vegetation, such as the normalized... -
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Dioxin-like and non-dioxin like contaminants in the herring Clupea harengus i...
The Norwegian spring spawning (NSS) herring is an ecologically important fish stock in the Norwegian Sea, and with a catch volume exceeding one million tons a year it is also... -
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Distribution of diatoms in surface sediments and some limnological characteri...
The investigation of the species composition and ecology of diatoms of modern bottom sediments in water bodies of arctic polygonal tundra in three subregions of North Yakutiya... -
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Environment and habitat characteristics of wintering lemmings in the Arctic
Snow cover has dramatic effects on the structure and functioning of Arctic ecosystems in winter. In the tundra, the subnivean space is the primary habitat of wintering small... -
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Ice velocities of Nordenskiöldbreen glacier, Svalbard
Precise measurements of ice-flow velocities are necessary for a proper understanding of the dynamics of glaciers and their response to climate change. We use stand-alone... -
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Characteristics, home ranges and population estimates of narwhals (Monodon mo...
Twenty-one narwhals tagged in 2003 and 2004 in Admiralty Inlet showed a different summer distributional pattern than previous narwhal-tracking studies from Somerset Island,... -
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Concentrations of PBDE and BDE congeners in adipose tissue of East Greenland ...
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were analysed in adipose tissue from 92 East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus) sampled during 1999-2001. Mean SumPBDE concentrations... -
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Water chemistry of lakes in Zackenbergdalen between 1997-2003, East Greenland
The ecology of arctic lakes is strongly influenced by climate-generated variations in snow coverage and by the duration of the ice-free period, which, in turn, affect the...
