Correlates between Feeding Ecology and Mercury Levels in Historical and Modern Arctic Foxes (Vulpes lagopus)

Natalia Bocharova; Gabriele Treu; Gábor Árpád Czirják; Oliver Krone; Volker Stefanski; Gudrun Wibbelt; Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttir; Páll Hersteinsson; Gereon Schares; Lilia Doronina; Mikhail Goltsman; Alex D. Greenwood

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060879

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Correlates between Feeding Ecology and Mercury Levels in Historical and Modern Arctic Foxes (Vulpes lagopus)

Natalia Bocharova ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Bocharova, Gabriele Treu, Gábor Árpád Czirják

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Gabriele Treu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Bocharova, Gabriele Treu, Gábor Árpád Czirják

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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Gábor Árpád Czirják ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Bocharova, Gabriele Treu, Gábor Árpád Czirják

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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Oliver Krone,

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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Volker Stefanski,

Affiliation Behaviorial Physiology of Farm Animals, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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Gudrun Wibbelt,

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttir,

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Páll Hersteinsson,

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Gereon Schares,

Affiliation Institute for Epidemiology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Wusterhausen, Germany
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Lilia Doronina,

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Mikhail Goltsman,

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Alex D. Greenwood

* E-mail: greenwood@izw-berlin.de

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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Correlates between Feeding Ecology and Mercury Levels in Historical and Modern Arctic Foxes (Vulpes lagopus)

Natalia Bocharova,
Gabriele Treu,
Gábor Árpád Czirják,
Oliver Krone,
Volker Stefanski,
Gudrun Wibbelt,
Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttir,
Páll Hersteinsson,
Gereon Schares,
Lilia Doronina

Published: May 6, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060879

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Publication: Guardian-Environment-Network
Title: “Arctic foxes' mystery decline linked to mercury exposure”
http://www.guardian.co.uk...

Publication: Scientific-American
Title: “Mercury in Seafood Diet Linked to Fox Die-Off: Scientific American”
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Publication: French-Tribune
Title: “Exposure to Mercury Links to Decline the Population of Foxes”
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Title: “Decline of super-cute Arctic fox may be linked to increased mercury levels (Wired UK)”
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Publication: BBC-News-Science-and-Environment
Title: “BBC News - Mercury exposure linked to dramatic decline in Arctic foxes”
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