Biotransport of marine-derived trace elements to a coastal ecosystem in the Canadian High Arctic

• Main Author: Brimble, Samantha
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 2009
• Subjects: Biology; Ecology; Oceanography; Arctic; Cape Vera; Devon Island; Fulmar; Guano; Fulmarus glacialis; Northern Fulmar
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28261; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-12470

Seabirds are an important link between their marine feeding areas and their terrestrial breeding environments, transporting both marine-derived nutrients and contaminants to land via their excreta, feathers and carcasses. The importance of seabird-derived nutrients is particularly apparent in nutrie...