Our review of the literature showed that since the beginning of the socio-economic
transformation in Poland in the 1990s, the downward trend in Hg emissions and its …

Stable isotope analysis (SIA) has emerged as a common tool in ecology and has proven
especially useful in the study of animal diet, habitat use, movement, and physiology. SIA has …

The ever increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance
to global environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews summarising the …

We modeled the flow of methyl mercury, a toxic global pollutant, in the Faroe Islands marine
ecosystem and compared average human methyl mercury exposure from consumption of …

Blubber biopsy samples from eastern North Pacific killer whales Orcinus orca were analyzed
for fatty acids, carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes and organochlorine contaminants. Fatty …

Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers
(PBDEs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane …

Abstract The Yellow River Estuary is a significant fishery, but at present there are few studies
about the concentrations of arsenic (As), mercury (Hg) and vanadium (V) in fish from this …

The present study investigated trophic relationships and mercury flow through food webs of
three tropical coastal ecosystems: Guanabara, Sepetiba and Ilha Grande bays. The …

Top marine predators present high mercury concentrations in their tissues as consequence
of biomagnification of the most toxic form of this metal, methylmercury (MeHg). The present …

Accurately predicting errors related to preservation, lipid extraction, and lipid normalization
on chemical tracers would enable the use of archived samples in long-term studies of …