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• A screening of select toxic and essential elements and persistent organic pollutants in the fur of Svalbard reindeer

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  • A. Pacyna-Kuchta
  • P. Wietrzyk-Pełka
  • M. Węgrzyn
  • M. Frankowski
  • Ż. Polkowska

  - CHEMOSPHERE - Year 2020

  Reindeers play an important role in the polar ecosystem, being long-lived sole vegetarians feeding on local vegetation. They can be used as a valuable bioindicator, helping us to understand contaminants’ impact on the polar terrestrial ecosystem. Still, scarce data exist from research in which polar herbivores (especially those from the European parts of the Arctic) were a major study subject for trace elements and persistent organic...

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