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*[[pesticides in harbour porpoises | Organochlorine pesticides in harbour porpoises]]<ref>Covaci, A.; Van de Vijver, K.; De Coen, W.; Das, K.; Bouquegneau, J.-M.; Blust, R.; Schepens, P. (2002). Determination of organohalogenated contaminants in liver of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded on the Belgian North Sea coast. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 44(10): 1157-1169</ref>
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*[[pesticides in harbour porpoises | Organochlorine pesticides in harbour porpoises]]
*[[PCB and heavy metals in beached sperm whales | Toxin analysis in beached sperm whales ]]<ref>Holsbeek, L.; Joiris, C.R.; Debacker, V.; Ali, B.I.; Roose, P.; Nellissen, J.P.; Gobert, S.; Bouquegneau, J.-M.; Bossicart, M. (1999). Heavy metals, organochlorines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sperm whales stranded in the southern North Sea during the 1994/1995 winter. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 38(4): 304-313</ref>
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*[[The relation between pollutants and disease in guillemots ]]<ref>Debacker, V.; Holsbeek, L.; Tapia, G.; Gobert, S.; Joiris, C.R.; Jauniaux, T.; Coignoul, F.; Bouquegneau, J.-M. (1997). Ecotoxicological and pathological studies of common guillemots Uria aalge beached on the Belgian coast during six successive wintering periods (1989-90 to 1994-95). Dis. Aquat. Org. 29(3): 159-168</ref>
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*[[Possible causes for breading failure in common terns]]<ref>van den Heuvel-Greve, M.J.; Hoekstein, M.S.J.; Lefèvre, F.O.B.; Meininger, P.J.; Vethaak, A.D. (2003). Mogelijke oorzaken van slecht broedsucces in de visdiefkolonie bij Terneuzen; Stand van zaken en aanbevelingen. Rapport RIKZ, 2003.037: Middelburg, the Netherlands. 38 pp.</ref>
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Revision as of 11:27, 16 July 2009

We have collected several case studies on marine pollution. The studies are either by Belgian authers or on the Belgian part of the North Sea. The studies covers different trophic levels of the ecosystem.

You can find comprehensible sumaries of these cases studies below







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