Trophic transfer of contaminants in a changing arctic marine food web: Cumberland sound, Nunavut, Canada

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 9914-9922

  McKinney, Melissa A ^a,b   McMeans, Bailey C ^a   Tomy, Gregg T ^c   Rosenberg, Bruno ^c   Ferguson, Steven H ^c   Morris, Adam ^d   Muir, Derek C G ^e   Fisk, Aaron T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC MARINE; BELUGA WHALES; BIOMAGNIFICATION FACTORS; CARBON SOURCE; CONTAMINANT DYNAMICS; FOOD WEBS; GREENLAND; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MAGNIFICATION FACTORS; MULTIFACTOR MODELS; ORGANOCHLORINES; RINGED SEALS; THERMOREGULATORY; TRANSIENT SPECIES; TROPHIC POSITION; TROPHIC TRANSFER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; IMPURITIES; OCEAN HABITATS; TISSUE;

POWER QUALITY;

ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FOOD WEB; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MARINE POLICY; PINNIPED; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARCTIC MARINE FOOD WEB; ARTICLE; BIOMAGNIFICATION FACTOR; CANADA; CARBON SOURCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD WEB; HABITAT; MODEL; MULTIFACTOR MODEL; NONHUMAN; THERMOREGULATION; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPHIC MAGNIFICATION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; NUNAVUT; SEALS, EARLESS; SEASONS; SHARKS; SKATES (FISH); WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WHALES; ZOOPLANKTON;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; CUMBERLAND SOUND; NUNAVUT;

ANIMALIA; DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS; MONODON; PHOCA GROENLANDICA; PHOCA HISPIDA; SOMNIOSUS MICROCEPHALUS;

EID: 84866392758     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es302761p     Document Type: Article

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