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• Trace metals in skeletal calcite of echinoderms from the Barents Sea

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  • A. Iglikowska
  • A. Piwoni-Piórewicz
  • B. Cieślik
  • D. Żyłan
  • P. Waszczuk
  • P. Kukliński

  - CHEMOSPHERE - Year 2024

  This study investigates the skeletal accumulation of selected elements (Al, Ag, As, Ca, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Pb, Sr, Zn) in echinoderms inhabiting Barents Sea, an area impacted by human activities from northern Norway and Kola Peninsula, known sources of metal pollution. The primary aim was to have insight whether metals incorporation in the skeleton of Arctic echinoderms is regulated physiologically by the organism...

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