Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Petroleum hydrocarbons
  • An assessment of knowledge concerning the fate and effects of petroleum hydrocarbons in the marine environment / J.W. Anderson
  • Detoxification system in polychaete worms: importance in the degradation of sediment hydrocarbons / Richard F. Lee [and 4 others]
  • The effect of exposure temperatures on oxygen consumption and opercular breathing rate of pink salmon fry exposed to toluene, naphthalene, and water-soluble fractions of Cook Inlet crude oil and no. 2 fuel oil / Robert E. Thomas and Stanley D. Rice
  • The effect of naphthalene on synthesis of peptide antifreeze in the Bering Sea sculpin Myoxocephalus verrucosus / A.L. DeVries
  • Condition index and free amino acid content of Macoma inquinata exposed to oil-contaminated marine sediments / G. Roesijadi and J.W. Anderson
  • Physiological basis of differential sensitivity of fish embryonic stages to oil pollution / J.R. Sharp, K.W. Fucik, and J.M. Neff
  • Part II. Metals
  • Toxic cations and marine biota: analysis of research effort during the three-year period 1974-1976 / Ronald Eisler
  • Effects of mercury, cadmium, and lead compounds on regeneration in estuarine fishes and crabs / Judith S. Weis and Peddrick Weis
  • Hematological effects of long-term mercury exposure and subsequent periods of recovery on the winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus / Margaret A. Dawson
  • The use of bivalve molluscs in heavy metal pollution research / Patricia A. Cunningham
  • Preliminary observations on the cytopathological effects of copper sulfate on chemoreceptors of Callinectes sapidus / Joel E. Bodammer
  • Copper- and cadmium-induced changes in the metabolism and structure of molluscan gill tissue / David W. Engel and Bruce A. Fowler
  • Part III. Pesticides and PCBs
  • Pesticides: their impact on the estuarine environment / DelWayne R. Nimmo
  • Fatty acid composition of phospholipids in thermally acclimating sculpins (Leptocottus armatus) treated with polychlorinated byphenyls (Aroclor 1254) / Richard S. Caldwell, Elaine M. Caldarone, and Barbara A. Rosene
  • Comparative metabolism of parathion by intertidal invertebrates / R.L. Garnas and D.G. Crosby
  • Physiological and biochemical investigations of the toxicity of pentachlorophenol to crustaceans / K. Ranga Rao [and 4 others]
  • A benthic bioassay using time-lapse photography to measure the effect of toxicants on the feeding behavior of lugworms (Polychaeta: Arenicolidae) / Norman I. Rubinstein
  • Part IV. Multiple factor interactions
  • Effect of Dimilin on development of larvae of the stone crab Menippe mercenaria, and the blue crab Callinectes sapidus / John D. Costlow, Jr.
  • Seasonal modulation of thermal acclimation and behavioral thermoregulation in aquatic animals / John L. Roberts
  • Multiple factor interactions and stress in coastal systems: a review of experimental approaches and field implications / Robert J. Livingston
  • Seasonal effects of chlorine-produced oxidants on the growth, survival, and physiology of the American oyster Crassostrea virginica (Gmenlin) / Geoffrey I. Scott and Winona B. Vernberg
  • Beyond the LC50: an opinion about research activities and needs concerning physiological effects of pollutants in the environment / Carl J. Sinderman.