BaselineMercury concentrations, biomagnification and isotopic discrimination factors in two seabird species from the Humboldt Current ecosystem
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Gaël Le Croizier: Conceptualization, Methodology, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. David Point: Resources, Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Funding acquisition. Marina Renedo: Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing. Jean-Marie Munaron: Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing. Pepe Espinoza: Resources, Writing – review & editing. Felipe Amezcua-Martinez: Writing – review & editing. Sophie Lanco Bertrand: Resources, Writing – review &
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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.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the cooperative agreement between the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), the Peruvian Sea Institute (IMARPE), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) project ‘Top Predators as Indicators of Exploited Marine Ecosystem dynamics’ (TOPINEME, PI SB), and the International Joint Laboratory DISCOH 1&2 for sample collection, and funding for carbon and nitrogen isotope and mercury concentration analysis. We thank Gaël Guillou for carbon and nitrogen stable
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