| endangered vancouver island marmots (marmota vancouverensis): sentinels of atmospherically delivered contaminants to british columbia, canada. | we characterized legacy and new contaminants in the highly endangered vancouver island (british columbia, canada) marmot and found generally low blood and fat concentrations of a complex mixture of pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs), -dibenzo-p-dioxins (pcdds), -dibenzofurans (pcdfs), polybrominated biphenyls (pbbs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (pbdes), and polychlorinated naphthalenes (pcns) in their tissues. the dominance of the more volatile alpha-hexachlorocyclohexane (hch) and ... | 2004 | 14982388 |