Environmental Contaminants in Colonial Waterbirds from Great Slave Lake, NWT: Spatial, Temporal and Food-chain Considerations

• Main Authors: Keith A. Hobson, Jacques Sirois
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Canada; Great Slave Lake; Northwest Territories; Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.535.8757; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic53-3-221.pdf

ABSTRACT. Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada, differs regionally in trophic status and local and regional inputs of contaminants. Spatial and temporal trends in contaminant levels in bioindicator species such as colonial waterbirds could offer insights into the potential for conta...