A stable isotope (δ 13 C, δ 15 N) model for the North Water food web: Implications for evaluating trophodynamics and the flow of energy and contaminants

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Hobson, Keith A., Fisk, Aaron, Karnovsky, Nina, Holst, Meike, Gagnon, Jean Marc, Fortier, Martin
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2002
• Subjects: Arctic; Fulmar; Alle alle; Arctic cod; bearded seal; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*; Black-legged Kittiwake; Boreogadus saida; Calanus hyperboreus; Delphinapterus leucas; Dovekie; Erignathus barbatus; Fulmarus glacialis; Glaucous Gull; ivory gull; Larus hyperboreus; Monodon monoceros; narwhal*; Northern Fulmar; Odobenus rosmarus; Phoca hispida; ringed seal; rissa tridactyla; Themisto; Themisto libellula; thick-billed murre; Uria aalge; Ursus maritimus; Copepods; uria; walrus*
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/444; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0645(02)00182-0

The North Water Polynya is an area of high biological activity that supports large numbers of higher trophic-level organisms such as seabirds and marine mammals. An overall objective of the Upper Trophic-Level Group of the International North Water Polynya Study (NOW) was to evaluate carbon and cont...