• Spatial variation in mercury concentrations in polar bear (Ursus maritimus) hair from the Norwegian and Russian Arctic 

      Lippold, Anna; Boltunov, Andrei; Aars, Jon; Andersen, Magnus; Blanchet, Marie-Anne; Dietz, Rune; Eulaers, Igor; Morshina, Tamara N.; Sevastyanov, Vyacheslav S.; Welker, Jeffrey M.; Routti, Heli Anna Irmeli (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-02)
      We examined spatial variation in total mercury (THg) concentrations in 100 hair samples collected between 2008 and 2016 from 87 polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from the Norwegian (Svalbard Archipelago, western Barents Sea) and Russian Arctic (Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, and Chukchi Sea). We used latitude and longitude of home range centroid for the Norwegian bears and capture position for the Russian bears ...