Trace element and stable isotope analysis elucidate stock structure in a narwhal ( Monodon monoceros ) population with no genetic substructure

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Authors: Watt, Cortney A., Hornby, Claire, Ferguson, Steven H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2019
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Canada; Somerset Island; Jones Sound; Eclipse Sound; Admiralty Inlet; Baffin; Monodon monoceros; narwhal*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2018-0307; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjz-2018-0307; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjz-2018-0307

Chemical composition of tissues can act as a biological tag to discriminate among groups of animals that inhabit different areas. In Canada, subsistence hunting of the Baffin Bay narwhal (Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758) population is managed as stocks represented by summer aggregations. However, n...