Marine Mammal Ecotoxicology (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

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.

• Provides a comprehensive, worldwide update and state of knowledge on current research and topics on marine mammal ecotoxicology
• Includes coverage of both new and emerging technologies
• Features a multidisciplinary approach that gives readers a broad, updated overview of the threats facing marine mammals and related conservation measures

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128122501
• Artikelnr.: 51228604

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