Mercury concentrations in muscle, brain and bone of Western Alaskan waterfowl

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 349; no. 1; pp. 277 - 283
• Main Authors: Rothschild, Roger F.N., Duffy, Lawrence K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shannon Elsevier B.V 15.10.2005; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Alaska; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Applied ecology; Aves; Aythya affinis; Bioaccumulation; Biological and medical sciences; Birds; Birds - metabolism; Bone; Bone and Bones - chemistry; Bone and Bones - metabolism; Brain; Brain - metabolism; Ecotoxicology, biological effects of pollution; Effects of pollution and side effects of pesticides on vertebrates; Environmental Monitoring; Food Chain; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Marine; Melanitta nigra; Mercury; Mercury - analysis; Mercury - metabolism; Muscle; Muscles - chemistry; Muscles - metabolism; Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis; Water Pollutants, Chemical - metabolism; Alaska; United States; North America; America; INE, USA, Alaska; IN, North Pacific; USA, Alaska; North Pacific; Brain; Bioaccumulation; Alaska; Birds; Muscle; Bone; Mercury; Striated muscle; Heavy metal; Pollutant; Vertebrata; Biological accumulation; Aves

Total mercury (THg), which includes both inorganic (Hg 2+) and methylmercury (MeHg) species, has been reported for seabirds in the North Pacific and Alaska. For the Yup'ik and Aleut people of Alaska, waterfowl are a small but important seasonal component of the diet, but many Alaskan species ha...