Temporal trends of mercury, cesium, potassium, selenium, and thallium in arctic char ( Salvelinus alpinus ) from Lake Hazen, Nunavut, Canada: Effects of trophic position, size, and age

• Published in: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
• Main Authors: Gantner, Nikolaus, Power, Michael, Babaluk, John A., Reist, James D., Köck, Günter, Lockhart, Lyle W., Solomon, Keith R., Muir, Derek CG.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2009
• Subjects: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Environmental Chemistry; Arctic; Canada; Lake Hazen; Nunavut; Salvelinus alpinus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1897/08-054.1; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1897%2F08-054.1; https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1897/08-054.1

Abstract Arctic char ( Salvelinus alpinus L.), the top predator in High Arctic lakes, often is used as a bioindicator of Hg contamination in Arctic aquatic ecosystems. The present study investigated effects of trophic position, size, and age of Arctic char in Lake Hazen, the largest lake in the Cana...