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Marine Mammal Toxicology

Marine Mammal Toxicology. A global and public health perspective. The Science of the Total Environment, 106 (1991) 43-53 Dispersion and transport paths of toxic persistent organochlorines to the Arctic- levels and consequences Michael Oehme. Toxicology of Marine Mammals –

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Marine Mammal Toxicology

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  1. Marine Mammal Toxicology A global and public health perspective

  2. The Science of the Total Environment, 106 (1991) 43-53 Dispersion and transport paths of toxic persistent organochlorines to the Arctic- levels and consequences Michael Oehme

  3. Toxicology of Marine Mammals – Vos et al 2003 Taylor and Francis

  4. Anthracosis in the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin

  5. Dioxin-like compounds in Fishing People from the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence River, QE, Canada Arch. Environm. Health 52: 309-316 1997

  6. Grandjean et al. Cognitive Deficit in 7 yo Children with prenatal exposure to methylmercury Neurotoxicol. Teratol. 19: 417-428 1997

  7. Beyond HAH and metals • Oil seeps, spills and drips • PAHs – atmospheric, runoff, marine industries • Persistent synthetic marine debris • Sewage • Contaminants • Pathogens • Nutrients: algal toxins, eutrophication, prey base alteration See review paper by Moscrop and Simmonds IWC SC/46/0 14

  8. Case Study 1987 Mid Atlantic Tursiops mortality • Brevetoxin • Morbillivirus • PCBs

  9. Background textbooks (all available for use in, but NOT removal from, Redfield 244) • Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals – Perrin et al 2002 Academic Press – concise source of background data on all aspects • Marine Mammal Medicine – Dierauf and Gulland 2001 CRC Handbook – Chapter on MM tox. • Toxicology of Marine Mammals – Vos et al 2003 Taylor and Francis – a series of poorly linked reviews and primary papers • Marine Mammals and Pollutants – annotated bibliography – Aguilar and Borrell ~ 1997 • Science of The Total Environment Volume 186, Issues 1-2, Pages 3-179 (16 July 1996) - A series of papers following an IWC mm tox. meeting in Bergen

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