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Title Marine mammal ecotoxicology : impacts of multiple stressors on population health / edited by Maria Cristina Fossi, Cristina Panti
Published London : Academic Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Contents Section I : Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Marine Mammal Populations -- Organochlorine Contaminants and Reproductive Implication in Cetaceans : A Case Study of the Common Dolphin / Sinéad Murphy, Robin J. Law, Robert Deaville, James Barnett, Matthew W. Perkins, Andrew Brownlow, Rod Penrose, Nicholas J. Davison, Jonathan L. Barber and Paul D. Jepson -- Feeding Ecology Tools to Assess Contaminant Exposure in Coastal Mammals / Elizabeth A. McHuron, Sarah H. Peterson and Todd M. O'Hara -- The Effects of Oil Exposure on Cetaceans / Céline A.J. Godard-Codding and Tracy K. Collier -- Legacy Contamination in Estuarine Dolphin Species from the South American Coast / Salvatore Siciliano, Jailson F. Moura, Davi C. Tavares, Helena A. Kehrig, Rachel A. Hauser-Davis, Isabel Moreira, Ricardo Lavandier, Leila S. Lemos, Renata Emin-Lima and Natalia S. Quinete -- Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Marine Mammals / Patricia A. Fair and Magali Houde -- Impacts of Marine Litter on Cetaceans : A Focus on Plastic Pollution / Maria Cristina Fossi, Matteo Baini, Cristina Panti and Sarah Baulch -- Persistent Organic Pollutants in Cetaceans Living in a Hotspot Area : The Mediterranean Sea / Letizia Marsili, Begoña Jiménez and Asunción Borrell -- Pollutants in Tropical Marine Mammals of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador : an Ecotoxicological Quest to the Last Eden / Juan José Alava and Peter S. Ross Section II : Effects of Toxicological and Cumulative Stress on Marine Mammal Health -- Field Sampling Techniques and Ecotoxicologic Biomarkers in Cetaceans / Céline A.J. Godard-Codding and Maria Cristina Fossi -- Ecotoxicological Biomarkers and Accumulation of Contaminants in Pinnipeds / Kristina Lehnert, Jean-Pierre Desforges, Krishna Das and Ursula Siebert -- New Technologies for Monitoring Marine Mammal Health / Annalaura Mancia -- Immunotoxic Effects of Environmental Pollutants in Marine Mammals / Jean-Pierre Desforges, Christian Sonne, Rune Dietz and Milton Levin -- Ecotoxicologic Stress in Arctic Marine Mammals, With Particular Focus on Polar Bears / Heli Routti, Bjørn M. Jenssen and Sabrina Tartu -- Toxicological Risks and Considerations Associated with Lipophilic Contaminant Burdens of Southern Ocean Mysticetes / Susan M. Bengtson Nash -- Emerging Pathogens and Stress Syndromes of Cetaceans in European Waters : Cumulative Effects / Sandro Mazzariol, Manuel Arbelo, Cinzia Centelleghe, Giovanni Di Guardo, Antonio Fernandez and Eva Sierra -- Ecotoxicology of the Sirenia in the Twenty-First Century / Thomas J. O'Shea, Noel Y. Takeuchi, Liesbeth Weijs and Helene Marsh Section III Implication for Monitoring and Conservation of Marine Mammals -- Marine Mammals and Multiple Stressors : Implications for Conservation and Policy / Mark P. Simmonds
Summary Marine Mammal Ecotoxicology: Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Population Health provides tactics on how to develop a comprehensive methodology for the study of existing threats to marine mammals. By presenting a conservation-biology approach and new and emerging technologies, this work helps provide crucial knowledge on the status of marine mammal populations that not only helps readers understand the ecosystem's health, but also instigate mitigation measures. This volume provides information that helps investigators unravel the relationships between exposure to environmental stressors (e.g., climate change, pollutants, marine litter, pathogens and biotoxins) and a range of endpoints in marine mammal species. The application of robust examination procedures and biochemical, immunological, and molecular techniques, combined with pathological examination and feeding ecology, has led to the development of health assessment methods at the individual and population levels in wild marine mammals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 13, 2018)
Subject Marine ecology.
Environmental toxicology.
NATURE -- Ecology.
NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
Environmental toxicology
Marine ecology
Form Electronic book
Author Fossi, Maria Cristina, editor
Panti, Cristina, editor
ISBN 9780128122501
0128122501