Microplastics in the Beaufort Sea Beluga Food Web

• Main Author: Moore, Rhiannon
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Northwest Territories; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; Arctic cisco; Arctic cod; Beaufort Sea; Beluga; Beluga*; Boreogadus saida; Coregonus autumnalis; Delphinapterus leucas; Inuvialuit
• Online Access: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/20241

Microplastics (MPs, particles <5 mm) represent an emerging global environmental concern and has been detected in multiple aquatic species. Very little is known, however, about the presence of MPs in higher trophic level species, including cetaceans. Working in collaboration with Inuvialuit hunter...