A trophic position model of pelagic food webs: Impact on contaminant bioaccumulation in lake trout

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 451-477

  Vander Zanden, M Jake ^a   Rasmussen, Joseph B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomagnification; Food chain; Food web; Lake trout; Mercury; Omnivory; PCBs; Smelt; Trophic level; Trophic position; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH; OSMERUS EPERLANUS;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMAGNIFICATION; FOOD WEB; LAKE TROUT; MERCURY; MODELLING; PCBS; SMELT; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0030390389     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2963490     Document Type: Article

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