Mercury biomagnification in marine zooplankton food webs in hudson bay

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 12952-12959

  Foster, Karen L ^a,b   Stern, Gary A ^a,c   Pazerniuk, Monica A ^a   Hickie, Brendan ^b   Walkusz, Wojciech ^c   Wang, Feiyue ^a   MacDonald, Robie W ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC MARINE; BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BIOMAGNIFICATION; DATA SETS; FOOD WEBS; HUDSON BAY; HUDSON STRAIT; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; MAGNIFICATION FACTORS; MARINE FOOD WEB; MARINE MAMMALS; MARINE WATERS; MONOMETHYLMERCURY; N VALUE; NORTHERN REGIONS; PREY-PREDATOR; TOTAL MERCURIES; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ECOLOGY; ICEBREAKERS; MAMMALS; MARINE BIOLOGY;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; MONOMETHYLMERCURY; NITROGEN 15; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; FOOD WEB; ICE BREAKER; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; BAY; CLIONE LIMACINA; FOOD WEB; HYDROLOGY; LIMACINA HELICINA; PREDATOR; PREY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BAYS; CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZOOPLANKTON;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY;

CLIONE LIMACINA; LIMACINA HELICINA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84870555825     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303434p     Document Type: Article

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