Environmental contaminants and marine mammals

Product Type: Book, Pages in

Year: 1999

Author(s): O'Shea, T. J

Pages: 485-565

Suggested Citation: O'Shea, T. J. 1999. Environmental contaminants and marine mammals. In: J.E. Reynolds, III and S.A. Rommel. Biology of Marine Mammals. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 485-565.

Abstract

Environmental contaminants have gained increasing attention as potential threats to marine mammals. In this chapter I present an overview of the current state of knowledge on marine mammals and the two classes of environmental contaminants that have received the most attention: organochlorine compounds and toxic elements…