Sled Dogs as Sentinel Species for Monitoring Arctic Ecosystem Health
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Sled Dogs as Sentinel Species for Monitoring Arctic Ecosystem Health. / Sonne, Christian; Letcher, Robert J.; Jenssen, Bjørn M.; Desforges, Jean-Pierre; Eulaers, Igor; Andersen-Ranberg, Emilie; Gustavson, Kim; Bossi, Rosanna; Styrishave, Bjarne; Sinding, Mikkel Holger S.; Dietz, Rune.
Pets as Sentinels, Forecasters and Promoters of Human Health. ed. / M. Ramiro Pastorinho; Ana Catarina A. Sousa. Springer, 2020. p. 21-45.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Sled Dogs as Sentinel Species for Monitoring Arctic Ecosystem Health
AU - Sonne, Christian
AU - Letcher, Robert J.
AU - Jenssen, Bjørn M.
AU - Desforges, Jean-Pierre
AU - Eulaers, Igor
AU - Andersen-Ranberg, Emilie
AU - Gustavson, Kim
AU - Bossi, Rosanna
AU - Styrishave, Bjarne
AU - Sinding, Mikkel Holger S.
AU - Dietz, Rune
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Here we review sled dogs as a sentinel monitoring species of ecosystem health across the Arctic focusing on environmental changes including pollution, climate change, and infectious diseases. Studies on environmental contaminants have been carried out mostly in Alaska and Greenland. While the majority of reports focus on mercury exposure and health effects, a major classical case-controlled study of exposure and effects from persistent organic pollutants (POPs) has been carried out on Greenland sled dog bitches and their pups. Altogether, the studies show that mercury and POPs affect multiple health endpoints across physiological systems, including reproductive, endocrine, and immune systems, that ultimately affect systems such as the liver and kidney. Therefore, sled dogs have proved to be a good model for assessing the health effects from contaminant exposure of top predators and Northerners in the Arctic. Furthermore, they are widelydistributed across the Arctic and show similar correlations to important health indicators reported in Northerners and polar bears. With respect to climate change and disease dynamics of zoonosis, most studies have taken place in Canada. However, at present sled dogs are not utilized in monitoring studies of zoonotic diseases. Such an inclusion will increasethe understanding of environmental changes, pollution, and diseases dynamics in Northerners and wildlife. We therefore recommend that ecosystem health assessments in the Arctic including that of Northerners start to include analyses of sleddogs combined with modeling tools. Doing so in a circumpolar perspective will further increase our understanding and monitoring possibilities of ecosystem health and Northerners exposure to contaminants, diseases, and climate change in the Arctic.
AB - Here we review sled dogs as a sentinel monitoring species of ecosystem health across the Arctic focusing on environmental changes including pollution, climate change, and infectious diseases. Studies on environmental contaminants have been carried out mostly in Alaska and Greenland. While the majority of reports focus on mercury exposure and health effects, a major classical case-controlled study of exposure and effects from persistent organic pollutants (POPs) has been carried out on Greenland sled dog bitches and their pups. Altogether, the studies show that mercury and POPs affect multiple health endpoints across physiological systems, including reproductive, endocrine, and immune systems, that ultimately affect systems such as the liver and kidney. Therefore, sled dogs have proved to be a good model for assessing the health effects from contaminant exposure of top predators and Northerners in the Arctic. Furthermore, they are widelydistributed across the Arctic and show similar correlations to important health indicators reported in Northerners and polar bears. With respect to climate change and disease dynamics of zoonosis, most studies have taken place in Canada. However, at present sled dogs are not utilized in monitoring studies of zoonotic diseases. Such an inclusion will increasethe understanding of environmental changes, pollution, and diseases dynamics in Northerners and wildlife. We therefore recommend that ecosystem health assessments in the Arctic including that of Northerners start to include analyses of sleddogs combined with modeling tools. Doing so in a circumpolar perspective will further increase our understanding and monitoring possibilities of ecosystem health and Northerners exposure to contaminants, diseases, and climate change in the Arctic.
KW - Arctic
KW - Arctic fox
KW - Climate change
KW - Contaminants
KW - Diseases
KW - Ecosystem
KW - Endocrine
KW - Energetics
KW - Genetics
KW - Histopathology
KW - Hormones
KW - Immune
KW - Inuits
KW - Mercury
KW - OHCs
KW - One Health
KW - Organohalogen
KW - PBPK
KW - PCB
KW - Persistent organic pollutants
KW - Polar bears
KW - POPs
KW - Sentinels
KW - Sled dogs
KW - Vitamins
KW - Zoonosis
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-30734-9_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-30734-9_2
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85078878908
SN - 978-3-030-30733-2
SP - 21
EP - 45
BT - Pets as Sentinels, Forecasters and Promoters of Human Health
A2 - Pastorinho, M. Ramiro
A2 - Sousa, Ana Catarina A.
PB - Springer
ER -
ID: 250252483