Objetivo Field data indicate that Arctic food webs are remarkably efficient in accumulating persistent organic pollutants. This has major implications for indigenous people health and commercial fishing values. Explanations are searched for in the specific physical environment and ecology of the productive marginal ice zone (MIZ), and include effects of ice-algae micro habitats, transpolar transport of contaminated ice-rafted sediments from Siberian shelves, coincidence in time and space of POP input and shunting of energy into food webs. Extensive field data of POP concentrations and other chemical as well as biological parameters from a number of different physical and biological matrices collected in an Arctic Expedition in 2001, will in combination with advancement of process understanding through lab experiments, return process based predictive models of POP accumulation in Arctic food webs. Ámbito científico agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisheriesnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecology Programa(s) FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002" Tema(s) 1.1.4.-3. - Key action Sustainable Marine Ecosystems Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinador STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITET Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Frescativaegen 54a 106 91 STOCKHOLM Suecia Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Participantes (2) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo BALTIC SEA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Alemania Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Seestrasse 15 18119 ROSTOCK /WARNEMUNDE Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITY OF TROMSOE Noruega Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 201 B,Breivika 9037 TROMSOE Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos
