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Case studies marine pollution

• Pollution and the food web
  • PBDE through the entire North Sea food web

• Pollution and marine mammals
  • Organochlorine pesticides in harbour porpoises
  • Toxin analysis in beached sperm whales

• Pollution and sea birds
  • The relation between pollutants and disease in guillemots
  • Possible causes for breading failure in common terns

• Pollution and pelagic fishes
  • Effects of xenoestogens in eels

• Pollution and benthic fishes
  • PFOS contamination in bib and plaice in the Western Scheldt
  • Volatile organic compounds in North sea fish

• Pollution and zoobenthos
  • Heavy metal content of mussels in the Western Scheldt estuary
  • Common starfish can act as a bioindicator for heavy metal pollution
  • Heavy metals in various Belgian benthic invertebrates
  • Effects of heavy metals on the sperm quality and the larvae survival of sea urchins
  • Effects of copper-based antifouling paints on brine shrimp
  • TBT and intersex in periwinkles
  • Levels of PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in various benthic species in the Belgian North sea and the Western Scheldt estuary
  • PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in Belgian shrimp

• Pollution and scavangers
  • Flame retardants organotin compounds and surfactants in opossum shrimps of the Scheldt estuary.
  • Effects of endocrine disrupting compounds on embryonic development of opossum shrimps.

• Pollution and zooplankton

• Pollution and algae
  • PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in Antarctic algae

Dictionnary

• Antifouling paints
• Bioaccumulation
• Bioindicator
• Biomagnification
• Blubber
• Dry weight
• Endocrine disrupting compounds
• Endocrine system
• Flame retardant
• Heavy metals
• Immunodeficiency
• Lipid weight
• Metallothionein
• Minamata disease
• Molarity
• Pollution
• Pollutant
• Surfactant
• Xenobiotic
• Vitellogenins
• Wet weight

List with toxic substances

• APE
• Cadmium
• Copper
• DDT
• Lead
• Mercury
• Methylmercury
• Organochlorine pesticides
• Organochlorine compounds
• Organotin compounds
• PAH
• PBDE
• PCB
• Pesticide
• PFOS
• TBT
• VOC
• Zinc

Norms

• OSPAR
• Water Framework Directive
  • List of priority substances

Risk analysis

• Environmental risk assessment of marine activities
• Endocrine disrupting compounds in the coastal environment