Evaluation of heavy metal contamination and groundwater quality along the Red Sea coast, southern Saudi Arabia.

abstract：:Shells of the pod razor shell (Ensis siliqua) from 13 locations around the west coast of mainland Britain have been analysed by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) for a range of trace metals including Zn, Cd, Pb, U, Ba, Sr and Mg. The trace metal record in these shells is a proxy r...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Pearce NJ,Mann VL

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to determine the concentrations of the most investigated environmentally relevant heavy metals in two highly endangered sea turtle species (Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas) from the important nesting area on the Northeast Mediterranean Sea. The highest mean concentration was of Fe, ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Yipel M,Tekeli İO,İşler CT,Altuğ ME

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity, distribution, and mechanisms of bacterial speciation of Vibrio species belonging to Harveyi clade are an important global research interests due to their pathogenic activity in coastal environments. Luminous bacteria are also known to act as environmental indicators in coastal waters. This study demonst...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Chatragadda R,Raju M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microplastics represent a new kind of environmental pollutant that has recently attracted extensive attention and become a research hotspot. Microplastics are similar in size to the food items of many marine organisms and are thus, often consumed by them, with potentially harmful and toxic effects. We examined the eff...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Jinhui S,Sudong X,Yan N,Xia P,Jiahao Q,Yongjian X

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Orbetello lagoon (Tyrrhenian coast, Italy) receives treated urban and land based fishfarms wastewater. The development of severe eutrophication imposed the three main activity adoption focuses on (1) macroalgae harvesting; (2) pumping of water from the sea; (3) confining wastewater to phytotreatment ponds. The res...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Lenzi M,Palmieri R,Porrello S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidance Document 25/2010, suggests sediment and biota are the most suitable matrices for the trend monitoring purpose, because they integrate the pollution over time and space. So, from 2005 to 2014, the sediment and biota concentrations of heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Hg, Ni, Pb) were analysed in the Vallona Lagoon (no...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Maggi C,Berducci MT,Di Lorenzo B,Dattolo M,Cozzolino A,Mariotti S,Fabrizi V,Spaziani R,Virno Lamberti C

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A marine system model applied to the North West European shelf seas is used to simulate the consequences of distinct CO(2) additions such as those that could arise from a failure of geological sequestration schemes. The choice of leak scenario is guided by only a small number of available observations and requires sev...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Blackford JC,Jones N,Proctor R,Holt J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollution of the world's oceans by marine debris has direct consequences for wildlife, with fragments of plastic <10 mm the most abundant buoyant litter in the ocean. Seabirds are susceptible to debris ingestion, commonly mistaking floating plastics for food. Studies have shown that half of petrel species regularly in...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Roman L,Paterson H,Townsend KA,Wilcox C,Hardesty BD,Hindell MA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations and distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls were determined in water, surface sediments and fishes from the estuaries of Pearl River, PR China. The results showed that the concentrations ranged from 2.47 ng l-1 to 6.75 ng l-1 in water, from 11.13 ng g-1 to 23.23 ng g-1 in sediments (dry weight) an...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Nie X,Lan C,Wei T,Yang Y

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this age of modern biology, aquatic toxicological research has pursued mechanisms of action of toxicants. This has provided potential tools for ecotoxicologic investigations. However, problems of biocomplexity and issues at higher levels of biological organization remain a challenge. In the 1980s and 1990s and cont...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Hinton DE,Kullman SW,Hardman RC,Volz DC,Chen PJ,Carney M,Bencic DC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entanglement in marine debris is a contributing factor in Steller sea lion (SSL; Eumetopias jubatus) injury and mortality. We quantified SSL entanglement by debris type, sex and age class, entanglement incidence, and estimated population level effects. Surveys of SSL haul-outs were conducted from 2000-2007 in Southeas...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Raum-Suryan KL,Jemison LA,Pitcher KW

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oil pollution resulting from natural and anthropogenic activities in the Arabian Gulf as well as oil residue in the form of tarmat (TM) deposited on the coast is a major environmental concern. The spatial distribution, chemical composition and weathering pattern of tarmat along the west coast of Qatar has been assesse...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Veerasingam S,Al-Khayat JA,Haseeba KP,Aboobacker VM,Hamza S,Vethamony P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imposex in neogastropods was used to determine the relative TBT distribution in the Gulf of Thailand in 2006. To identify the imposex prevalence, 8757 specimens, belonging to 22 species from five families of neogastropods, were collected at 56 sites in 13 sample areas. These areas were located between the Bight of Ban...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Swennen C,Sampantarak U,Ruttanadakul N

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental conditions and xenobiotic exposure can be sources of stress to living organisms. Biological markers are measurable indicator of changes which may happen at any biological level and which can be considered an early warning signal of some biological or environmental state or condition. A structured field s...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Strubbia S,Lyons BP,Lee RJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantifying the uncertainty associated with monitoring protocols is essential to prevent the misclassification of ecological status and to improve sampling design. We assessed the Posidonia oceanica multivariate index (POMI) bio-monitoring program for its robustness in classifying the ecological status of coastal wate...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Bennett S,Roca G,Romero J,Alcoverro T

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fish are an important food source for South Pacific (SP) island countries, yet there is little information on contamination of commercial marine fish species by plastic. The aim of our study was to perform a broad-scale assessment of plastic ingestion by fish common in the diet of SP inhabitants. We examined 932 speci...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Markic A,Niemand C,Bridson JH,Mazouni-Gaertner N,Gaertner JC,Eriksen M,Bowen M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are increasing concerns regarding the delivery, movement and presence of non-indigenous or invasive species into marine and estuarine areas. Such introductions can be on a large scale such as the movement to higher latitudes of species as the result of global warming. Alternatively, such species can be introduce...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Elliott M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate and behavior of the Sanchi oil spill during January-February 2018 was simulated by coupling an oil spill model and satellite observations with meteo-oceanographic forcing. Extensive validation tests were performed for winds, currents, surface slick, stranded oil and oil fate. A series of hindcast experiments ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Pan Q,Yu H,Daling PS,Zhang Y,Reed M,Wang Z,Li Y,Wang X,Wu L,Zhang Z,Yu H,Zou Y

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic noise can have a negative effect on the physiology and survival of marine fishes. Most research has focused on later life-stages, and few studies have investigated the effects of human-induced noise on embryogenesis. The current study investigated whether playback of motorboat noise affected the embryoge...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Fakan EP,McCormick MI

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estuaries are very sensitive ecosystems to human activities and the natural evolution of their drainage basins located upstream. Pollution derived from human activities, such as historical mining or recent industrial wastes, can significantly affect their environmental quality. This paper analyzes the silver and coppe...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Ruiz F,Vidal JR,Cáceres LM,Olías M,González-Regalado ML,Campos JM,Bermejo J,Abad M,Izquierdo T,Carretero MI,Pozo M,Monge G,Tosquella J,Prudencio MI,Dias MI,Marques R,Gómez P,Toscano A,Romero V

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shipping noise is a threat to marine wildlife. Grey seals are benthic foragers, and thus experience acoustic noise throughout the water column, which makes them a good model species for a case study of the potential impacts of shipping noise. We used ship track data from the Celtic Sea, seal track data and a coupled o...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Chen F,Shapiro GI,Bennett KA,Ingram SN,Thompson D,Vincent C,Russell DJF,Embling CB

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Four common consumer plastic samples (polyethylene, polystyrene, polyethylene terephthalate, polyvinylchloride) were studied to investigate the impact of physical parameters such as turbulence, salinity and UV irradiance on leaching behavior of selected plastic components. Polymers were exposed to two different salini...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Suhrhoff TJ,Scholz-Böttcher BM

更新日期：2016-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Suspended particles (SP) are increasing dramatically in Bohai Bay, China and may affect the growth and composition of phytoplankton assembly. To determine the effects of SP on the growth of two dominant phytoplankton species, Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin and Gymnodinium sp., we cultured and tested their growth cha...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Liu C,Wang J,Feng J,Peng S

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A fuzzy decision tree (FDT) based framework was developed to facilitate the selection of suitable oil spill response methods in the Arctic. Hypothetical oil spill cases were developed based on six identified attributes, while the suitability of three spill response methods (mechanical containment and recovery, use of ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Hu G,Mohammadiun S,Gharahbagh AA,Li J,Hewage K,Sadiq R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluates an optical bioassay based on green photosynthetic microalgae as a promising alternative for monitoring of relevant seawater pollutants. Photosystem II fluorescence parameters from several microalgae species were examined in the presence of three common marine pesticides that act as photosyn...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Moro L,Pezzotti G,Turemis M,Sanchís J,Farré M,Denaro R,Giacobbe MG,Crisafi F,Giardi MT

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans continue to increase the use and disposal of plastics by producing over 240 million tonnes per year, polluting the oceans with persistent waste. The majority of plastic in the oceans are microplastics (<5 mm). In this study, the contamination of microplastic fibers was quantified in sediments from the intertida...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Mathalon A,Hill P

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Scleractinian corals, primarily plate corals in families Agaricidae and Acroporidae, were monitored in situ before, during and after a 3D marine seismic survey. An initial four day seismic run, resulting in a maximum 24 h received sound exposure level (SEL24) of 204 dB re 1 μPa2·s and received 0-to-peak pressure (PK P...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Heyward A,Colquhoun J,Cripps E,McCorry D,Stowar M,Radford B,Miller K,Miller I,Battershill C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of nutrients (NO2-N, NO3-N, NH4-N, PO4-P, and SiO3-Si) and their ratios in the Lembeh Strait were estimated in April 2013, off the northeastern coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia. The concentrations of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) (NO2-N+NO3-N+NH4-N) and PO4-P were low, with a maximum of 0.181 and...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Baohong C,Muchtar M,Tingting F,Hongzhe C,Jigang W,Kaiwen Z,Jianguo D,Hui L,Bin C

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of seabirds as sentinels of the condition of aquatic ecosystems has been well-established. Large environmental perturbations to aquatic food webs (e.g., chemical contamination, overfishing, particulate pollution) have all been detected or monitored by tracking seabirds at colonies. However, seabirds may elicit...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Mallory ML,Robinson SA,Hebert CE,Forbes MR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used species sensitivity distributions (SSDs) and a Bayesian statistical model to carry out a primary risk assessment for pyridine triphenylborane (PTPB) in Hiroshima Bay, Japan. We used SSDs derived from toxicity values, such as EC₅₀ and LC₅₀, obtained from this study and previous work to calculate hazardous conce...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Mochida K,Onduka T,Amano H,Ito M,Ito K,Tanaka H,Fujii K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00