caa a22 4500 467903786 CHVBK 20180406152827.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-005-9095-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-005-9095-3 Marine Birds as Indicators of Arctic Marine Ecosystem Health: Linking the Northern Ecosystem Initiative to Long-Term Studies [Elektronische Daten] [Mark Mallory, H. Gilchrist, Birgit Braune, Anthony Gaston] Marine birds are sensitive indicators of the condition of marine ecosystems in the Arctic, partly because they feed at the top of the arctic food chain. The Northern Ecosystem Initiative (NEI) recently supported four separate studies that investigated aspects of Arctic marine bird science which simultaneously addressed goals of the NEI to better understand northern ecosystems and their response to environmental stressors. The projects used both scientific and traditional knowledge to examine the relationship between sea-ice, contaminants, and the ecology of marine birds, and to transfer environmental knowledge to students. Results from these investigations confirm that changes are occurring in Arctic environments, and that these are captured through marine bird research. Collectively these studies provided new data that supported NEI objectives of monitoring the health of the Arctic ecosystem, and contributed to Canada's international obligations for Arctic science. Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2006 Arctic nationallicence marine birds nationallicence contaminants nationallicence sea-ice nationallicence climate change nationallicence inuit nationallicence polynya nationallicence nunavut nationallicence Mallory Mark Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service, Iqaluit, NU, Canada aut Gilchrist H. Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, Raven Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut Braune Birgit Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, Raven Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut Gaston Anthony Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, Raven Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 113/1-3(2006-02-01), 31-48 0167-6369 113:1-3<31 2006 113 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9095-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9095-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mallory Mark Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service, Iqaluit, NU, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gilchrist H. Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, Raven Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Braune Birgit Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, Raven Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gaston Anthony Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, Raven Road, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 113/1-3(2006-02-01), 31-48 0167-6369 113:1-3<31 2006 113 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer