ORGANOCHLORINE CONTAMINANTS IN ARCTIC MARINE FOOD-CHAINS - IDENTIFICATION, GEOGRAPHICAL-DISTRIBUTION, AND TEMPORAL TRENDS IN POLAR BEARS
ORGANOCHLORINE CONTAMINANTS IN ARCTIC MARINE FOOD-CHAINS - IDENTIFICATION, GEOGRAPHICAL-DISTRIBUTION, AND TEMPORAL TRENDS IN POLAR BEARS
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DOI:
10.1021/es00174a011
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发表时间:
1988-09-01
影响因子:
11.4
通讯作者:
SCHWEINSBURG, RE
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作者:
NORSTROM, RJ;SIMON, M;SCHWEINSBURG, RE
Contamination of Canadian arctic and subarctic marine ecosystems by organochlorine (C) compounds was measured by analysis of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) tissues collected from 12 zones between 1982 and 1984. PCB congeners (S-PCB), chlordanes (S-CHLOR, mainly oxychlordane), DDT and metabolites (S-DDT), chlorobenzenes (S-CBz), hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (S-HCH), and dieldrin were identified by high-resolution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Nonachlor-III, a nonachlor isomer in technical chlordane, was positively identified for the first time as an environmental contaminant. S-PCB and S-CHLOR accounted for > 80% of the total organochlorines in adipose tissue. Six PCB congeners (IUPAC numbers 99, 153, 138, 180, 170, and 194) constituted approximately 93% of S-PCB in polar bears. Levels of most OCs were lowest in the high Arctic, intermediate in Baffin Bay, and highest in Hudson Bay. Levels of .alpha.-HCH were elevated in zones influenced by surface runoff. Levels of S-CHLOR were four times higher and levels of the other OCs were two times higher in adipose tissue of bears from Hudson Bay and Baffin Day in 1984 than in adipose tissue archived since 1969 from these areas; levels of S-DDT did not change.