Biotransport of organic contaminants and mercury to a coastal food web in the Canadian High Arctic

• Main Author: Choy, Emily Sarah
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2009
• Subjects: Biogeochemistry.; Environmental Health.; Arctic; Guano; Cape Vera; Fulmarus glacialis; Plectrophenax nivalis
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-19119; http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/28168

Seabird-derived nutrients enhance plant abundance in coastal ecosystems, increasing rates of primary productivity, and indirectly increasing consumer populations. However, at Cape Vera, concentrations of contaminants in the sediment of ponds below nesting colonies of northern fulmars (Fulmarus glaci...