Physical and biological factors affecting mercury and perfluorinated contaminants in arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) of pingualuit crater lake (Nunavik, Canada)

Arctic

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Gantner, Nikolaus ^a,b,c   Veillette, Julie ^d   Michaud, Wendy K ^e   Bajno, Robert ^f   Muir, Derek ^c   Vincent, Warwick F ^d   Power, Michael ^e   Dixon, Brian ^e   Reist, James D ^f   Hausmann, Sonja ^d,g   Pienitz, Reinhard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CRATER LAKE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANOFLUORINE; SALMONID; TELEOST;

CANADA; PINGUALUIT CRATER; QUEBEC [CANADA];

SALVELINUS ALPINUS;

EID: 84863734519     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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