Methylmercury Cycling at the Aquatic-terrestrial Interface in a High Arctic Freshwater Continuum

• Main Author: Varty, Stephanie
• Other Authors: Lehnherr, Igor, Geography
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Contaminants; Freshwater; Methylmercury; Seasonality; 0366; Nunavut; Lake Hazen; Climate change
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/94051

Methylmercury (MeHg) is a global toxin which bioaccumulates and biomagnifies through food webs. To discern how MeHg enters Arctic food webs, it is important to understand spatial and seasonal cycling of MeHg at the terrestrial-aquatic interface, processes which are sensitive to climate change. This...