The Changing Bay of Fundy—Beyond 400 Years THE ROLES OF Corophium volutator AND MERCURY IN COMPROMISING SHOREBIRD MIGRATION

• Main Authors: Andrew S. Didyk, Nicole A. Bourgeois, Paul A. Arp, Jesse Bourque, Birgit Braune, Georgina K. Cox, Charles Ritchie, Peter G. Wells, Michael D. B. Burt
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Morrison; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.551.9391; http://docs.informatics.management.dal.ca/gsdl/collect/bofep1/pdf/WF/BOFEP6-2004-062.pdf

Each summer, the Bay of Fundy serves as a staging area for many species of shorebirds which, in two weeks or less, must acquire sufficient fat stores to power a non-stop flight of more than 4,000 km to their wintering grounds in South America (McNeil and Cadieux 1972; Hicklin 1987). During their sta...