An assessment of mercury and its dietary drivers in fur of Arctic wolves from Greenland and High Arctic Canada.
Dietary ecology
Museum collection
Stable isotope
Top predator, risk assessment
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 Sep 2022
10 Sep 2022
Historique:
received:
28
02
2022
revised:
18
05
2022
accepted:
19
05
2022
pubmed:
26
5
2022
medline:
18
6
2022
entrez:
25
5
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Mercury has become a ubiquitous hazardous element even ending up in pristine areas such as the Arctic, where it biomagnifies and leaves especially top predators vulnerable to potential health effects. Here we investigate total mercury (THg) concentrations and dietary proxies for trophic position and habitat foraging (δ
Identifiants
pubmed: 35613645
pii: S0048-9697(22)03268-5
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156171
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Mercury
FXS1BY2PGL
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
156171Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.