Environmental contaminants in colonial waterbirds from Great Slave Lake, NWT: Spatial, temporal and food-chain considerations

Arctic

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 221-233

  Wayland, M ^a   Hobson, K A ^a   Sirois, J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black tern; Caspian tern; Great Slave Lake; Herring gull; Mercury; Mew gull; Organochlorines; Selenium

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOINDICATOR; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEABIRD; TROPHIC LEVEL;

CANADA; GREAT SLAVE LAKE; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

CHLIDONIAS NIGER; LARUS ARGENTATUS; LARUS CANUS; STERNA CASPIA;

EID: 0033666535     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic853     Document Type: Article

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