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

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Wayland, Mark, Hobson, Keith A., Sirois, Jacques
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2000
• Subjects: black tern; Caspian tern; Great Slave Lake; herring gull; mew gull; mercury; organochlorines; selenium; guifette noire; sterne caspienne; Grand lac des Esclaves; goéland argenté; goéland cendré; mercure; organochlorés; Canada; Noire; Northwest Territories; Arctic; Grand Lac des Esclaves; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; Esclave*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63910

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 contaminant bio...