Survey of mercury in boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata) and wood frog (Rana sylvatica) tadpoles from wetland ponds in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada

• Główni autorzy: Stacy A. Boczulak (Autor), Mark C. Vanderwel (Autor), Britt D. Hall (Autor)
• Format: Książka
• Wydane: Canadian Science Publishing, 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Tadpoles are important prey items for many aquatic organisms and often represent the largest vertebrate biomass in many fishless wetland ecosystems. Neurotoxic mercury (Hg) can, at elevated levels, decrease growth, lower survival, and cause developmental instability in amphibians. We compared total...