Svalbard shores under stress : Impacts of local human activities on marine invertebrates living in a warming Arctic coastal system

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TABLE OF CONTENT Chapter 1 General introduction 9 Chapter 2 Exposure radius of a local coal mine in an Arctic coastal system; correlation between PAHs and mercury as a marker for a local mercury source 29 Chapter 3 Temperate versus Arctic: unravelling the effects of temperature on oil toxicity in gammarids 61 Chapter 4 Low organotin contamination of harbour sediment in Svalbard 87 Chapter 5 Early detection of marine non-indigenous species on Svalbard by DNA metabarcoding of sediment 105 Chapter 6 General discussion 155 Summary 182 Acknowledgements 186 About the author 189 SENSE certificate 190