An assessment of mercury and its dietary drivers in fur of Arctic wolves from Greenland and High Arctic Canada

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Treu, Gabriele, Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S., Czirják, Gábor Á., Dietz, Rune, Gräff, Thomas, Krone, Oliver, Marquard-Petersen, Ulf, Mikkelsen, Johan Brus, Schulz, Ralf, Sonne, Christian, Søndergaard, Jens, Sun, Jiachen, Zubrod, Jochen, Eulaers, Igor
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Water Pollutants; Chemical/analysis [MeSH]; Arctic Regions [MeSH]; Stable isotope; Pollution; Museum collection; Environmental Chemistry; Animals [MeSH]; Dietary ecology; Environmental Engineering; Environmental Monitoring [MeSH]; Mercury/analysis [MeSH]; Canada [MeSH]; Wolves [MeSH]; risk assessment; Food Chain [MeSH]; Greenland [MeSH]; Waste Management and Disposal; Top predator; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Canada; Foxe Basin; Greenland; Baffin; East Greenland
• Online Access: https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6449437; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156171; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722032685?via%3Dihub#s0080

Mercury has become a ubiquitous hazardous element even ending up in pristine areas such as the Arctic, where it biomagnifies and leaves especially top predators vulnerable to potential health effects. Here we investigate total mercury (THg) concentrations and dietary proxies for trophic position and...