Regional and species specific bioaccumulation of major and trace elements in arctic seabirds

• Published in: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
• Main Authors: Borgå, Katrine, Campbell, Linda, Gabrielsen, Geir W., Norstrom, Ross J., Muir, Derek C.G., Fisk, Aaron T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2006
• Subjects: Auks; Gulls; Mercury; Metals; Minerals; Arctic; Barents Sea; Baffin Bay; Canada; Fulmar; Alle alle; Baffin; Black guillemot; Black-legged Kittiwake; Cepphus grylle; Dovekie; Glaucous Gull; ivory gull; Larus hyperboreus; Northern Fulmar; rissa tridactyla; thick-billed murre; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/420; https://doi.org/10.1897/05-574R1.1

Twenty-five essential and nonessential elements were analyzed in Arctic seabirds to study the influence of phylogeny, tissue, Arctic region, and diet on avian element accumulation and to identify co-occurrence among metals. Muscle and liver concentrations were positively correlated, generally being...