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SUBMITTER: Shore SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8979895 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shore Samantha L SL Giarikos Dimitrios G DG Duffy Lawrence K LK Edwards Mickie R MR Hirons Amy C AC
Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology 20211112 4
This study established the first baseline of changing elemental concentrations in bowhead whale baleen over time (1958-1999). From previously published stable isotope data, year, season (summer or winter), and location (Beaufort or Bering/Chukchi seas) were attributed to each sample. Thirteen elements (Al, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Se, V, Zn) in baleen from nine subsistence-harvested bowhead whales (n = 138) were detected. Al, Cu, and Fe were the highest concentrations while Cd and V w ...[more]