Persistent Pollutants in Marine Ecosystems

✍ Scribed by Colin H. Walker and D.R. Livingstone (Eds.)

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new volume from the SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Special Publications Series examines the phenomenon of persistent pollutants in the seas and oceans. Unlike the highly visible and obvious effects caused by oil, certain chemicals have unseen but long-term and far-reaching effects on the marine ecosystem. They often have long half-lives, are carried great distances and pass easily through the food chain from prey to predator. The behaviour and effects of these persistent pollutants on each type of marine animal (invertebrates, vertebrates, fish, mammals and fish-eating birds) are described. A final overview draws the observations and conclusions together presenting a work that provides a foundation for understanding the behaviour of persistent pollutants in the marine environment

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Earlier Volumes in the SETAC Special Publications Series, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Foreword, Pages vii-viii, ROBERT L. LIPNICK
Preface, Pages ix-x
List of Abbreviations, Pages xi-xii
CHAPTER 1 - Persistent Pollutants in Marine Invertebrates, Pages 3-34, DAVID R. LIVINGSTONE
CHAPTER 2 - Occurrence and Fate of Persistent Pollutants in Marine Invertebrates: Studies with Polychaetes and the Common Mussel, Mytilus edulis, Pages 35-45, W. ERNST
CHAPTER 3 - The Distribution of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in Juvenile Blue Crabs, Callinectes sapidus, and the Physiological Effects of Consumption of Food from a Polluted Environment on This Species, Pages 49-62, ANGELA CRISTINI, KEITH COOPER
CHAPTER 4 - The Relationship Between PCBs in Biota and in Water and Sediment from New Bedford Harbor: a Modeling Evaluation, Pages 63-80, JOHN P. CONNOLLY
CHAPTER 5 - Chlorinated and Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Bottom Sediments, Fish and Marine Mammals in US Coastal Waters: Laboratory and Field Studies of Metabolism and Accumulation, Pages 83-115, USHA VARANASI, JOHN E. STEIN, WILLIAM L. REICHERT, KAREN L. TILBURY, MARGARET M. KRAHN, SIN-LAM CHAN
CHAPTER 6 - The Toxicokinetics of PCBs in Marine Mammals with Special Reference to Possible Interactions of Individual Congeners with the Cytochrome P450-dependent Monooxygenase System: an Overview, Pages 119-159, JAN P. BOON, EVELINE VAN ARNHEM, STEPHAN JANSEN, NARAYANAN KANNAN, GERT PETRICK, DETLEF SCHULZ, JAN C. DUINKER, PETER J.H. REIJNDERS, ANDERS GOKSØYR
CHAPTER 7 - Chemical Modernization and Vulnerability of Cetaceans: Increasing Toxic Threat of Organochlorine Contaminants, Pages 161-177, SHINSUKE TANABE, RYO TATSUKAWA
CHAPTER 8 - Patterns and Trends of Organic Contaminants in Canadian Seabird Eggs, 1968–90, Pages 181-194, J.E. ELLIOTT, D.G. NOBLE, R.J. NORSTROM, P.E. WHITEHEAD, M. SIMON, P.A. PEARCE, D.B. PEAKALL
CHAPTER 9 - Problems of Bioaccumulation in Fish-eating Birds from the Mediterranean, Pages 195-209, A. RENZONI
CHAPTER 10 - The Ecotoxicology of Persistent Pollutants in Marine Fish-eating Birds, Pages 211-232, C.H. WALKER
CHAPTER 11 - Pollutants in Marine Ecosystems: an Overview, Pages 235-263, DAVID R. LIVINGSTONE, PETER DONKIN, COLIN H. WALKER
Index, Pages 265-272