Peat Deposits and Thick-billed Murre Colonies in Hudson Strait and Northern Hudson Bay: Clues to Post-Glacial Colonization of the Area by Seabirds

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Gaston, Anthony J., Donaldson, Garry
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1995
• Subjects: Animal distribution; Animal waste products; Bird nesting; Manures; Mosses; Peat; Plant distribution; Plant growth; Plant nutrition; Plants (Biology); Thick-billed Murres; Akpatok Island; Nunavut; Coats Island; Digges Islands; Hudson Strait region; Baie d'Hudson; Baie-d'Hudson; Digges; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Hudson Strait; Mousse; Ungava Bay; Arctic; Baie d'Ungava; Détroit d'Hudson; thick-billed murre; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64314

Deposits of peat moss are found in association with several major seabird colonies in the area of Hudson Strait and northern Hudson Bay. Because such deposits are absent from similar ground away from seabird colonies, they seem to have developed as a result of manuring by the birds. Consequently dat...