Marine mammal ecotoxicology : impacts of multiple stressors on population health /
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London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA :
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Section I. Legacy and emerging contaminants in marine mammal populations. 1. Organochlorine contaminants and reproductive implication in cetaceans : a case study of the common dolphin / Sinéad Murphy [and nine others] ; 2. Feeding ecology tools to assess contaminant exposure in coastal mammals / Elizabeth A. McHuron, Sarah H. Peterson and Todd M. O'Hara ; 3. The effects of oil exposure on cetaceans / Céline A.J. Godard-Codding and Tracy K. Collier ; 4. Legacy contamination in estuarine dolphin species from the South American coast / Salvatore Siciliano [and nine others] ; 5. Poly- and perfluoralkyl substances in marine mammals / Patricia A. Fair and Magali Houde ; 6. Impacts of marine litter on cetaceans : a focus on plastic pollution / Maria Cristina Fossi [and three others] ; 7. Persistent organic pollutants in cetaceans living in a hotspot area : the Mediterranean Sea / Letizia Marsili, Begoña Jiménez and Asunción Borrell ; 8. 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. 9. Field sampling techniques and ecotoxicologic biomarkers in cetaceans / Céline A.J. Godard-Codding and Maria Cristina Fossi ; 10. Ecotoxicological biomarkers and accumulation of contaminants in pinnipeds / Kristina Lehnert [and three others] ; 11. New technologies for monitoring marine mammal health / Annalaura Mancia ; 12. Immunotoxic effects of environmental pollutants in marine mammals / Jean-Pierre Desforges [and three others] ; 13. Ecotoxicological stress in Arctic marine mammals, with particular focus on polar bears / Heli Routti, Bjørn M. Jenssen and Sabrina Tartu ; 14. Toxicological risks and considerations associated with lipophilic contaminant burdens of Southern Ocean mysticetes / Susan M. Bengtson Nash ; 15. Emerging pathogens and stress syndromes of cetaceans in European waters : cumulative effects / Sandro Mazzariol [and five others] ; 16. Ecotoxicology of the Sirenia in the twenty-first century / Thomas J. O'Shea [and three others]
- Section III. Implication for monitoring and conservation of marine mammals. 17. Marine mammals and multiple stressors : implications for conservation and policy / Mark P. Simmonds.