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Scientific papers 

  • Béland, P. 1996. The beluga whales of the St. Lawrence River. Scientific American. May 1996: 74-81.
  • Béland, P., S. DeGuise, C. Girard, A. Lagacé, D. Martineau, R. Michaud, D. C. G. Muir, R. J. Norstrom, É. Pelletier, S. Ray, and L. R. Shugart. 1993. Toxic compounds and health and reproductive effects in St. Lawrence beluga whales. J. Great Lakes Res. 19(4): 766-775.
  • Béland, P., S. DeGuise, and R. Plante. 1992. Toxicology and pathology of St. Lawrence marine mammals. Project report for World Wildlife Fund Canada’s Wildlife Toxicology Fund.
  • Jarman, W. M., R. J. Norstrom, D. C. G. Muir, B. Rosenberg, M. Simon, and R. W. Baird. 1996. Levels of organochlorine compounds, including PCDDS and PCDFS, in the blubber of cetaceans from the west coast of North America. Marine Pollution Bulletin 32(5): 426-436.
  • Martineau D., K. Lemberger, A. Dallaire, P. Labelle, T. P. Lipscomb, P. Michel, I. Mikaelian. 2002. Cancer in wildlife, a case study: beluga from the St. Lawrence Estuary, Québec, Canada. Environmental Health Perspectives. 110(3): 1-7.
  • Martineau, D., S. DeGuise, M. Fournier, L. Shugart, C. Girard, A. Lagacé, and P. Béland. 1994. Pathology and toxicology of beluga whales from the St. Lawrence Estuary, Québec, Canada. Past, present and future. Sci. Total Environ. 154: 201-115.
  • Muir, D. C. G., C. A. Ford, B. Rosenberg, R. J. Norstrom, M. Simon and P. Béland. 1996. Persistent organochlorines in beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) from the St. Lawrence River Estuary. I. Concentrations and patterns of specific PCBs, chlorinated pesticides and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxines and -dibenzofurans. Environmental Pollution 93(2): 219-234.
  • Muir, D. C. G., C. A. Ford, R. E. A. Stewart, T. G. Smith, R. F. Addison, M. E. Zinck and P. Béland. 1990. Organochlorine contaminants in belugas, Delphinapterus leucas, from Canadian waters. Can. Bull. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 224: 165-190.
  • Muir, D. C. G., K. Koczanski, R. Rosenberg and P. Béland. 1996. Persistent organochlorines in beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) from the St. Lawrence River Estuary. II. Temporal trends, 1982-1994. Environmental Pollution 93(2): 235-245.
  • Norstrom, R. J., D. C. G. Muir, C. A. Ford, M. Simon, C. R. Macdonald and P. Béland. 1992. Indications of P450 monooxygenase activities in beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) and narwhal (Monodon monoceros) from patterns of PCB' PCDD and PCDF accumulation. Marine Environmental Research 34: 267-272.

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