Postmortem Health and Pollution Investigations on Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) of the Islands Helgoland and Sylt

Table 2

Element profile in whole blood (WB) and plasma (P) [μg L⁻¹] samples of seals investigated in this study compared to our previous study on seals of the German Bight [3].

		Pv 01	Pv 02	Pv 03	Pv 04	Pv 05	Phoca vitulina German Bight
Al	WB	1.17	1.72	1.32	0.80	—	<0.17–499
	P	—	8.43	—	—	2.81
As	WB	287	449	290	732	—	42.0–592
	P	130	1010	478	1940	285
Be	WB	<0.08	<0.08	<0.08	<0.08	—	<0.08–1.80
	P	<0.08	<0.08	<0.08	<0.08	<0.08
Ca	WB	45.8 ∗ 10^3	59.2 ∗ 10^3	70.2 ∗ 10^3	53.7 ∗ 10^3	—	29.8–55.0 ∗ 10^3
	P	37.6 ∗ 10^3	82.5 ∗ 10^3	79.3 ∗ 10^3	89.2 ∗ 10^3	71.1 ∗ 10^3
Cd	WB	0.70	0.70	0.71	0.70	—	<0.12–3.10
	P	0.66	0.75	0.84	0.64	0.65
Co	WB	0.86	0.85	0.83	0.84	—	<0.02–7.56
	P	0.53	1.05	0.86	1.00	0.69
Cr	WB	—	0.89	—	0.41	—	1.52–84.9
	P	5.02	5.96	4.62	6.10	5.67
Cu	WB	717	668	669	779	—	0.53–1.40 ∗ 10^3
	P	471	645	652	851	552
Fe	WB	457 ∗ 10^3	369 ∗ 10^3	147 ∗ 10^3	380 ∗ 10^3	—	520–1140 ∗ 10^3
	P	1.31 ∗ 10^3	3.56 ∗ 10^3	2.09 ∗ 10^3	1.63 ∗ 10^3	1.41 ∗ 10^3
K	WB	171 ∗ 10^3	216 ∗ 10^3	139 ∗ 10^3	216 ∗ 10^3	—	131–197 ∗ 10^3
	P	142 ∗ 10^3	305 ∗ 10^3	157 ∗ 10^3	290 ∗ 10^3	157 ∗ 10^3
Mg	WB	3580 ∗ 10^3	3210 ∗ 10^3	2490 ∗ 10^3	3530 ∗ 10^3	—	—
	P	12.3 ∗ 10^3	22.5 ∗ 10^3	18.7 ∗ 10^3	22.6 ∗ 10^3	15.9 ∗ 10^3
Mn	WB	8.12	3.21	2.68	5.37	—	67–151
	P	3.45	4.98	4.65	4.33	3.70
Mo	WB	1.54	1.19	1.09	1.25	—	1.27–22.8
	P	15.2	10.6	7.98	9.17	8.07
Ni	WB	0.72	0.85	0.80	0.84	—	<0.38–25.7
	P	2.54	16.94	8.20	5.34	4.10
Pb	WB	1.35	2.47	1.24	1.48	—	<0.02–4.52
	P	0.04	0.14	<0.02	<0.02	<0.02
Rb	WB	63.0	126	55.0	127	—	52–149
	P	37.1	102	37.3	94.7	39.8
Se	WB	476	330	530	420	—	520–2260
	P	513	701	607	793	840
Sr	WB	61	67	126	85	—	25–70
	P	59.8	108	152	140	145
V	WB	0.88	0.85	0.89	0.88	—	<0.05–1.30
	P	1.66	3.62	5.77	4.58	4.61
Zn	WB	2500	1840	1360	2340	—	2730–4570
	P	385	898	686	937	473