Trace elements in tissues of phocid seals harvested in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic: Influence of age and feeding ecology

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 726-746

  Dehn, Larissa A ^a   Sheffield, Gay G ^b   Follmann, Erich H ^a   Duffy, Lawrence K ^a   Thomas, Dana L ^a   Bratton, Gerald R ^c   Taylor, Robert J ^c   O'Hara, Todd M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CORRELATION METHODS; ECOLOGY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; SILVER; TRACE ELEMENTS;

HYPERBOLIC DECAY FUNCTION; PHOCID SEALS; SEAL TISSUES; SPOTTED SEALS;

TISSUE;

AGE; FEEDING ECOLOGY; PINNIPED; TRACE ELEMENT;

ALASKA; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ERIGNATHUS; ERIGNATHUS BARBATUS; PHOCA HISPIDA; PHOCA LARGHA; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 26844493612     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z05-053     Document Type: Article

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