abstract：:Mercury (Hg) is a toxic element distributed globally through atmospheric transport. Agattu Island, located in the western Aleutian Islands, Alaska, has no history of point-sources of Hg contamination. We provide baseline levels of total mercury (THg) concentrations in breast feathers of three birds that breed on the i...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Kaler RS,Kenney LA,Bond AL,Eagles-Smith CA

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Bivalve samples from 142 sites were analyzed to determine the concentration and toxicity equivalents (TEQ) of dioxins and furans (D/F) as part of the NOAA National Status and Trends Program. The total concentration of 17 D/F ranged from not detected to 203 pg/g wet weight of tissue. Octachlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin, O...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Wade TL,Sweet ST,Sericano JL,Defreitas DA,Lauenstein GG

更新日期：2014-04-30 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：:A primitive-equation model has been used to investigate the meteorologically-driven circulation of the Bay of Algeciras. It is shown that the mean circulation of Atlantic Water (AW) is characterized by an anticyclonic cell, while Mediterranean Water (MW) follows a preferred cyclonic pathway. Meteorological forcing dis...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Sánchez-Garrido JC,Lafuente JG,Sammartino S,Naranjo C,de los Santos FJ,Álvarez Fanjul E

更新日期：2014-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of copepods to ocean acidification (OA) and warming may increase with time, however, studies >10 days and on synergistic effects are rare. We therefore incubated late copepodites and females of two dominant Arctic species, Calanus glacialis and Calanushyperboreus, at 0 °C at 390 and 3000 μatm pCO₂ for ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Hildebrandt N,Niehoff B,Sartoris FJ

更新日期：2014-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to assess the impact of food production on river export of nutrients to the coastal waters of the Bay of Bengal in the past (1970 and 2000) and the future (2030 and 2050), and the associated potential for coastal eutrophication. We model nutrient export from land to sea, using the Global...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Sattar A,Kroeze C,Strokal M

更新日期：2014-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse osmosis membranes at many desalination plants are disinfected by periodic shock treatments with sodium metabisulphite, which have potentially toxic effects to the environment for marine life, although no empirical and experimental evidence for this is yet available. The aim of this study was to characterise fo...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Portillo E,Ruiz de la Rosa M,Louzara G,Ruiz JM,Marín-Guirao L,Quesada J,González JC,Roque F,González N,Mendoza H

更新日期：2014-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen types of seafoods were collected from four counties (districts) of Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, China and analyzed for organochlorine pesticides (OCPs). The average concentrations of OCPs in seafoods ranged from 258.3 ng g⁻¹ (lw) to 3459.6 ng g⁻¹ (lw). Hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) and dichlorodiphenyltrichlo...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Wang JY,Yu XW,Fang L

更新日期：2014-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Beach sands can sustain indigenous and introduced populations of enterococci. The objective of this study was to evaluate wave action in promoting the release of introduced bacteria. To accomplish this objective this study developed a method to assess attachment and identified conditions under which introduced bacteri...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Phillips MC,Feng Z,Vogel LJ,Reniers AJ,Haus BK,Enns AA,Zhang Y,Hernandez DB,Solo-Gabriele HM

更新日期：2014-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Total organic carbon (TOC) (in sediment) and dissolved organic matter (DOM) (in water column) play important roles in controlling the mercury sequestration process by the sediments from the central east coast of India. This toxic metal prefers to associate with finer size particles (silt and clay) of sediments. Increa...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Chakraborty P,Sharma B,Babu PV,Yao KM,Jaychandran S

更新日期：2014-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to curb pollution in the marine environment are covered by national and international legislation, yet weather balloons are released into the environment with no salvage agenda. Here, we assess impacts associated with weather balloons in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (GBRWHA). We use modeling to a...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： O'Shea OR,Hamann M,Smith W,Taylor H

更新日期：2014-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of dispersed oil droplets with large diameter suspended particulate materials (SPM) has been little studied. In the current study, particle size, oil characteristics and chemical dispersant significantly influence the adsorption of oil droplets to SPM in seawater. Sediments with a smaller particulate s...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Sørensen L,Melbye AG,Booth AM

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This review is the first attempt to comprehend the changes in metal contamination levels in surface estuarine sediments with changing time around India. Contamination factor, geoaccumulation index, pollution load index, effects range low and effects range median analysis were used to evaluate the quality of the estuar...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Chakraborty P,Ramteke D,Chakraborty S,Nagender Nath B

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing concern of seawater intrusion to freshwater aquifers due to groundwater overexploitation in the eastern coastal belt of Southern India. The problem becomes complex in the regions where industrial effluents are also contaminating the freshwater aquifers. In order to understand the hydrochemical compl...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Sonkamble S,Chandra S,Ahmed S,Rangarajan R

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:For heavy metals, quality standards indicating good environmental status are designed to evaluate concentrations in the whole fish body, whereas monitoring of metals is often conducted using muscle or liver tissue. As most metals accumulate at different rates in different parts of fish, data should be adjusted to refl...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Boalt E,Miller A,Dahlgren H

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The oceans play a crucial role in the global environment and the sustainability of human populations, because of their involvement in climate regulation and provision of living and non-living resources to humans. Maintenance of healthy oceans in an era of increasing human pressure requires a high-level understanding o...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Morrison RJ,Zhang J,Urban ER Jr,Hall J,Ittekkot V,Avril B,Hu L,Hong GH,Kidwai S,Lange CB,Lobanov V,Machiwa J,San Diego-McGlone ML,Oguz T,Plumley FG,Yeemin T,Zhu W,Zuo F

更新日期：2013-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The most important oyster farming area in Europe is in a close proximity of two medium size merchant ports. Cargo ships deballast in this area before loading, releasing unwanted or noxious marine species. During a sampling campaign aboard these arriving ships, we found in some ballast water samples a huge number of po...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Masson D,Thomas G,Genauzeau S,Le Moine O,Derrien A

更新日期：2013-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastic ingestion by seabirds is a growing conservation issue, but there are few time series of plastic ingestion with large sample sizes for which one can assess temporal trends. Common and Thick-billed Murres (Uria aalge and U. lomvia) are pursuit-diving auks that are legally harvested in Newfoundland and Labrador, ...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Bond AL,Provencher JF,Elliot RD,Ryan PC,Rowe S,Jones IL,Robertson GJ,Wilhelm SI

更新日期：2013-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sources and transport processes of As, Cu, Cd and Pb were studied in different environmental compartments of Deception Island, an active volcano in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Element concentrations in fresh water samples are consistent with the lowest values reported elsewhere in Antarctica. Interestingly...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Mão de Ferro A,Mota AM,Canário J

更新日期：2013-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastic pellets may serve as a carrier of toxic contaminants, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Considering that beach morphodynamics and pellet distribution varied along the shore, and that contaminant sources may vary on different scales, it is expected that this variability is reflected in the conc...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Fisner M,Taniguchi S,Majer AP,Bícego MC,Turra A

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of human activity on the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria throughout coastal estuarine ecosystems is not well characterized. It has been suggested that laterally transferred genetic agents, such as integrons, play a role in the spread of resistant bacteria throughout ecosystems. This study compares t...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Uyaguari MI,Scott GI,Norman RS

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms likely mediate processes affecting the fate and impacts of marine plastic pollution, including degradation, chemical adsorption, and colonization or ingestion by macroorganisms. We investigated the relationship between plastic-associated microorganism communities and factors such as location, temperatur...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Carson HS,Nerheim MS,Carroll KA,Eriksen M

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As an unwanted by-product in the power plants, cooling water (CW) discharge may induce harmful effects on the coastal environment. In this paper, to accurately predict the CW transport in the Daya Bay, China, we develop a three-dimensional hydrodynamic and temperature model to simulate the transport of the CW from nuc...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Wei X,Ni P,Zhan H

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Baseline concentration of strontium and Sr-90 in Gulf is presented. The strontium concentration is much higher than reported for other oceanic waters, while the Sr-90 concentration is low at 0.7-1.0 mBq l(-1), that represents the background level following nuclear tests and can be used as an effective tracer in case o...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Uddin S,Al Ghadban AN,Behbahani M

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Remote islands, such as the São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago (SPSPA), Brazil, are pristine areas. However, these locations are not exempt from the arrival of anthropogenic agents, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The present study aimed to determine the occurrence and distribution of POPs in the marine...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Dias PS,Cipro CV,Taniguchi S,Montone RC

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In laboratory experiments, the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa was exposed to settling particles. The effects of reef sediment, petroleum drill cuttings and a mix of both, on the development of anoxia at the coral surface were studied using O2, pH and H2S microsensors and by assessing coral polyp mortality. Due to t...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Allers E,Abed RM,Wehrmann LM,Wang T,Larsson AI,Purser A,de Beer D

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the environmental impacts of long-line aquaculture of Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) on sediment geochemistry and carbon oxidation by sulfate reduction and diffusive benthic nutrient flux in a coastal ecosystem in Korea. Inventories of the NH4(+) and HPO4(2-) at the farm site were 7.7-11.5 and 1.8...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Hyun JH,Kim SH,Mok JS,Lee JS,An SU,Lee WC,Jung RH

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oil spills cause aggressive impacts on marine ecosystems affecting immense areas and the species inhabiting them. If wastes are not cleaned up properly, the remnants may affect local populations for a long time. This work focuses on the long-term impacts of the Prestige spillage that occurred off Galician coast (Spain...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Crego-Prieto V,Danancher D,Campo D,Perez J,Garcia-Vazquez E,Roca A

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:PAH-degrading bacteria, including Novosphingobium sp. PCY, Microbacterium sp. BPW, Ralstonia sp. BPH, Alcaligenes sp. SSK1B, and Achromobacter sp. SSK4, were isolated from mangrove sediments. These isolates degraded 50-76% of 100 mg/l phenanthrene within 2 weeks. Strains PCY and BPW also degraded pyrene at 98% and 71%...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Wongwongsee W,Chareanpat P,Pinyakong O

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm production and motility, fecundity, and egg size, complexity and viability of serpulid polychaetes Hydroides elegans and Hydroides diramphus after 2-week treatment to hypoxia (2 mg O2 l(-1)) was compared with those under normoxia (6 mg O2 l(-1)). Despite reduced fecundity, the effect of parental hypoxic exposure...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Leung JY,Cheung SG,Qiu JW,Ang PO,Chiu JM,Thiyagarajan V,Shin PK

更新日期：2013-09-15 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：:The role of a yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) small colony in conveying trace elements (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, THg, V, Zn) was assessed in a Mediterranean nature reserve (Marinello ponds) at various spatial and temporal scales. Trace element concentrations in guano were high and seasonally variable. In contras...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Signa G,Mazzola A,Tramati CD,Vizzini S

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium concentrations have been measured in sediment, fucoid macroalgae and macroinvertebrates from four estuaries of SW England (Yealm, Plym, Looe, Fal). Sediment concentrations ranged from about 0.4 μg g(-1) in the Yealm to 1.49 μg g(-1) at one site in the Plym. Concentrations in Fucus vesiculosus (0.05-0.31 μg g(...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Turner A

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:First order removal rates for 15 polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil, sediments and mangrove leaves were compared in relation to the parameters used in fate transport analyses (i.e., octanol-water partition coefficient, organic carbon-water partition coefficient, solubility, diffusivity in water, HOMO-LUMO gap, m...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Tansel B,Lee M,Tansel DZ

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury contamination of fish is dependent upon a system's ability to transform inorganic Hg into biologically available forms; however, fish biometrics also play an important role. To assess long term trends in Hg concentrations in sand flathead (Platycephalus bassensis) a polynomial model, corrected for fish length,...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Jones HJ,Swadling KM,Tracey SR,Macleod CK

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the heavily industrialized Masan Bay of southern coast, Korea, the potential harmful effects of heavy metals (Cd, Co, Cu, Ni, Pb, Sn, Zn, and Hg) were evaluated in terms of the pollution load index (PLI) and ecological risk assessment index (ERI) methods, and the results obtained were considered alongside the healt...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Lim DI,Choi JW,Shin HH,Jeong do H,Jung HS

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A comprehensive assessment of marine litter in three environmental compartments of Belgian coastal waters was performed. Abundance, weight and composition of marine debris, including microplastics, was assessed by performing beach, sea surface and seafloor monitoring campaigns during two consecutive years. Plastic ite...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Van Cauwenberghe L,Claessens M,Vandegehuchte MB,Mees J,Janssen CR

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for quantitative molecular methods is growing in environmental, food, and medical fields but is hindered by low and variable DNA extraction and by co-extraction of PCR inhibitors. DNA extracts from Enterococcus faecium, seawater, and seawater spiked with E. faecium and Vibrio parahaemolyticus were tested by q...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Cox AM,Goodwin KD

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyl (dl-PCBs) concentrations in Baltic herring (Clupea harengus) have been relatively stable since the mid to late 1990s. It is unclear why concentrations in Baltic herring are not following the observed decreases in oth...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Miller A,Hedman JE,Nyberg E,Haglund P,Cousins IT,Wiberg K,Bignert A

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Corals in the Gulf withstand summer temperatures up to 10 °C higher than corals elsewhere and have recovered from extreme temperature events in 10 years or less. This heat-tolerance of Gulf corals has positive implications for the world's coral populations to adapt to increasing water temperatures. However, survival o...

journal_title：Marine pollution bulletin

authors： Coles SL,Riegl BM

更新日期：2013-07-30 00:00:00