A troubled top of the marine food chain: Ecotoxicological relevance and consideration to stranded cetaceans in Philippine waters

• Main Authors: Bondoc, Jonah L., Aragones, Lemnuel V., Santiago, Evangeline C., Masangkay, Joseph S.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Marine mammals—Effect of human beings on—Philippines; Cetacea—Effect of human beings on—Philippines; Environmental toxicology—Philippines; Heavy metals—Physiological effect; Chemistry
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6688
• Institution: De La Salle University

Anthropogenic contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyltricloethanes (DDTs), heavy metals, and polycyclic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are continually being detected in various tissues of marine mammals in other parts of the world. Data correlating pollutant residues with altere...