Spatial and temporal trends of contaminants in Canadian Arctic freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems: A review

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Braune, B.M. (Birgit M.), Muir, D. (D.), DeMarch, B. (B.), Gamberg, M. (M.), Poole, K. (K.), Currie, R. (R.), Dodd, M. (M.), Duschenko, W. (W.), Eamer, J. (J.), Elkin, B. (B.), Evans, M. (M.), Grundy, S. (S.), Hebert, C.E. (Craig), Johnstone, R. (R.), Kidd, K. (K.), Koenig, B. (B.), Lockhart, L. (L.), Marshall, H. (H.), Reimer, K. (K.), Sanderson, J. (J.), Shutt, L. (L.)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Biological implications; Canadian Arctic; Chemical contaminants; Freshwaters; Hydrocarbons; Metals; Organochlorines; Radionuclides; Terrestrial ecosystem; Arctic; Lockhart; Yukon
• Online Access: https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/15790; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00038-8

The state of knowledge of contaminants in Canadian Arctic biota of the freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems has advanced enormously since the publication of the first major reviews by Lockhart et al. and Thomas et al. in The Science of the Total Environment in 1992. The most significant gains are new knowledge of spatial trends of organochlorines and heavy metal contaminants in terrestrial animals, such as caribou and mink, and in waterfowl, where no information was previously available. Spatial trends in freshwater fish have been broadened, especially in the Yukon, where contaminant measurements of, for example, organochlorines were previously non-exis