Marine Mammal Ecotoxicology

Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Population Health
Herausgeber: Fossi, Maria Cristina; Panti, Cristina

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780128121443
• ISBN-10: 0128121440
• Artikelnr.: 50907061

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1. Legacy and emerging contaminants in marine mammal populations 1.
Organochlorine contaminants and reproductive implication in cetaceans: A
case study of the common dolphin  2. Feeding ecology tools to assess
contaminant exposure in coastal mammals  3. The toxicological effects of
oil exposure on cetaceans  4.  Legacy contamination in estuarine dolphin
species from the South American coast  5. Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl
Substances in Marine Mammals 6. Marine debris interaction with marine
mammals  7. Persistent organic pollutants in cetaceans living in a hotspot
area: the Mediterranean sea 8. Pollutants in tropical marine mammals of the
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador: An Ecotoxicological Quest to the Last Eden 
PART 2. Effects of toxicological and cumulative stress on marine mammal
health 9. Field sampling techniques and ecotoxicological Biomarkers in
cetaceans  10. Ecotoxicological biomarkers and accumulation of contaminants
in pinnipeds  11. New technologies for monitoring marine mammal health  12.
Immunotoxic effects of environmental pollutants in marine mammals 13.
Ecotoxicological stress in Arctic marine mammals - with particular focus on
polar bears 14. Toxicological Risks and Considerations Associated with
Lipophilic Contaminant Burdens of Mysticetes in Antarctic Ecosystems  15.
Emerging pathogens and stress syndromes of cetaceans in European waters:
cumulative effects 16. Ecotoxicology of the Sirenia in the Twenty-First
Century 
PART 3. Implication for monitoring and conservation of marine mammals 17.
Marine mammals and multiple stressors, implications for conservation and
policy