title: Twenty years of monitoring of persistent organic pollutants in Greenland biota. A review.
abstract: The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) is a working group under the Arctic Council with the aim to monitor and assess temporal trends of contaminants in Arctic ecosystems. The Greenland AMAP Core programme was established to contribute to this effort. The Core programme includes three main components; routine monitoring, retrospective studies and new POP screening studies. The programme is based on an adaptive approach, which has led to changes throughout the years. An overview of the temporal trends during the last two to three decades is presently given together with selected examples of different characteristic trends of POPs. The results show how tissue banked samples and retrospective studies has helped in establishing time-series of compounds of emerging concern. Lastly, the statistical power of the Greenlandic time-series is discussed. The lesson learned is that trend monitoring improves with samples over time, and only pays off after decades of data are generated.
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Centre, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark. Electronic address: ffr@bios.au.dk.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rigét
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Department of Environmental Science, Arctic Research Centre, Frederiksborgvej 399, Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vorkamp
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Department of Environmental Science, Arctic Research Centre, Frederiksborgvej 399, Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bossi
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Centre, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sonne
authors.affiliation: Ecotoxicology and Wildlife Health Division, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3, Canada.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Letcher
authors.affiliation: Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Arctic Research Centre, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dietz
mesh_terms: D001110:Arctic Regions; D058448:Biota; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D006116:Greenland; D007391:International Cooperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants
keywords: Biota; Greenland; Persistent organic pollutants; Statistical power; Temporal trends