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ArticleHeliyon2019

Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination of subsistence species on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Archipelago.

Elise M Adams, Frank A von Hippel, Bruce A Hungate, C Loren Buck

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Article in Heliyon, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Elise M AdamsDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, USA.
Frank A von HippelDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, USA.
Bruce A HungateDepartment of Biological Sciences and Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, USA.
C Loren BuckDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a group of synthetic, lipophilic organochlorines that were banned due to their impacts on human and wildlife health and environmental persistence. Although banned, the continued release from pre-banned products allows them to persist at toxic levels in the environment. This is especially the case in lipid rich food webs of the Arctic, where PCBs accumulate due to both long-range atmospheric transport and locally contaminated sites such as formerly used defense (FUD) sites. At the request of the leadership of the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Archipelago, we analyzed PCB concentrations in samples of threespine stickleback (

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ArcticEnvironmental chemistryEnvironmental pollutionEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental toxicologyFishFood toxicologyFormerly used defense siteFUDIndigenous communitiesMusselsPersistent organic pollutantsPOPsPublic healthSeafoodSubsistenceWater pollution

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PMID31890953
PMCPMC6926255

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