Trace element and stable isotope analysis elucidate stock structure in a narwhal (Monodon monoceros) population with no genetic substructure

• Main Authors: Watt, Cortney, Hornby, Claire, Ferguson, Steven H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2019
• Subjects: Admiralty Inlet; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Canada; Eclipse Sound; Jones Sound; Somerset Island; Baffin; Monodon monoceros; narwhal*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/97105; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjz-2018-0307

Chemical composition of tissues acts a biological tag to discriminate among groups of animals that inhabit different areas. In Canada, subsistence hunting of the Baffin Bay narwhal (Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758) population is managed as stocks represented by summer aggregations. However, narwhal...