Trophic transfer of contaminants in a changing arctic marine food web: Cumberland sound, Nunavut, Canada

• Published in: Environmental Science & Technology
• Main Authors: McKinney, Melissa A., McMeans, Bailey C., Tomy, Gregg T., Rosenberg, Bruno, Ferguson, Steven H., Morris, Adam, Muir, Derek C.G., Fisk, Aaron T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Greenland; Cumberland Sound; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*; Climate change; Harp Seal; narwhal*; ringed seal; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/384; https://doi.org/10.1021/es302761p

Contaminant dynamics in arctic marine food webs may be impacted by current climate-induced food web changes including increases in transient/subarctic species. We quantified food web organochlorine transfer in the Cumberland Sound (Nunavut, Canada) arctic marine food web in the presence of transient...