Flame retardants and legacy contaminants were analyzed in adipose tissue from 11
circumpolar polar bear (Ursus maritimus) subpopulations in 2005–2008 spanning Alaska …

It is widely recognized that marine mammals are exposed to a wide variety of pollutants, with
a weight of evidence indicating impacts on their health. Since hundreds of new chemicals …

Since 1990, tissue samples from UK-stranded and-bycaught cetaceans have been available
for study of contaminant burdens. These have been used to study spatial and temporal …

Legacy organochlorine contaminants were determined in adipose tissues from 294 polar
bears (Ursus maritimus) sampled in East Greenland in 23 of the 28 years between 1983 and …

Declining emissions of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), subject to international control
under the Stockholm convention, are not consistently reflected in biotic samples. To assess …

This review covers selected 2010 articles on the biological, chemical and physical effects of
natural and anthropogenic pollutants on marine and estuarine plants and animals. The …

Twenty grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) mother–pup pairs from the colony of the Isle of May
(Scotland) were sampled at early and late lactation in order to study the transfer of …

1. Characteristics, size, reproduction and longevity 2. Position in the marine food web,
foraging ecology, predators, diet, competitors 3. World status (international context) 4 …

Life history parameters were determined for stranded and bycaught harbor porpoises
(Phocoena phocoena) from Scottish (UK) waters (1992–2005). Fetal growth rate was 84.4 …

In the European North Sea, harbour porpoises are top predators with relatively long life
spans and a limited capacity for metabolic biotransformation of contaminants compared to …