Ubiquity of chemical contamination in marine mammal populations: A literature review

• Main Author: Bondoc, Jonah L.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2010
• Subjects: Marine pollution; Marine mammals—Effect of pollution on; Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6654
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper provides a review of the current scientific literature to provide information on the anthropogenic contaminants such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that are being detected in increasing quantities in various tissues (blubb...