Temporal trend of mercury in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard using teeth as a biomonitoring tissue

Aurore Aubail 1, 2, * Rune Dietz 3, * Frank Rigét 3 Christian Sonne 3 Øystein Wiig 4 Florence Caurant 1
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1 LIENSs - LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés - UMR 7266
2 NERI - National Environmental Research Institute
3 Department of Arctic Environment
NERI - National Environmental Research Institute
4 NHMO - Natural History Museum of Oslo
Abstract : We examined the use of mercury (Hg) and nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes in teeth of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard as biotracers of temporal changes in Hg pollution exposure between 1964 and 2003. Teeth were regarded as a good matrix of the Hg exposure, and in total 87 teeth of polar bears were analysed. Dental Hg levels ranged from 0.6 to 72.3 ng/g dry weight and increased with age the first 10 years of life. A decreasing time trend in Hg concentrations was observed over the recent four decades while no temporal changes were found in the stable isotope ratios of nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C). This suggests that the decrease of Hg concentrations over time was more likely due to a lower environmental Hg exposure in this region rather than a shift in the feeding habits of Svalbard polar bears.
Keywords : Hg carbon nitrogen stable isotope polar bear tooth Svalbard temporal trend
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Journal of Environmental Monitoring, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012, 14 (1), pp.56-63. 〈10.1039/C1EM10681C〉
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Aurore Aubail, Rune Dietz, Frank Rigét, Christian Sonne, Øystein Wiig, et al.. Temporal trend of mercury in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard using teeth as a biomonitoring tissue. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012, 14 (1), pp.56-63. 〈10.1039/C1EM10681C〉. 〈hal-00647260〉

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