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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 xenoestrogens 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
  • 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 shrimp from the Belgian North Sea
  • 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 scavengers
  • Common starfish can act as a bioindicator for heavy metal pollution

• Pollution and zooplankton
  • Organochlorines in particles and zooplankton from the Belgian part of the North Sea and the Scheldt estuary

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

Environmental standards and legislations

• OSPAR
  • List of priority substances
• Water Framework Directive
  • List of priority substances

List of toxic substances

• 2,4,6-Bromophenyl 1-2(2,3-dibromo-2-methylpropyl)
• 1,2-Dichloroethane
• 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylphenol
• 6PPD
• Alachlor
• AMPA
• Anthracene
• APE
• Atrazine
• Bentazon
• Benzene
• Bisphenol-A
• C_10-13-chloroalkanes
• Cadmium
• CDDT
• Chlorfenvinphos
• Chloroform
• Chlorpyrifos
• Clotrimazole
• Copper
• Cyclododecane
• DBP
• DDT
• DEHP
• Dichloromethane
• Dicofol
• Diosgenin
• Dioxins
• Diuron
• Endosulphan
• EPN
• Flucythrinate
• Fluoranthene
• Free cyanide
• Glyphosate
• Heptachloronorbornene
• Hexachlorobenzene
• Hexachlorobutadiene
• Isoproturon
• Lead
• Lindane
• Mecoprop
• Mercury
• Methoprene
• Methoxychlor
• Naphthalene
• Neodecanoic acid, ethenyl ester
• Nickel
• Nonylphenol
• Octylphenol
• PAH
• PBDE
• PBEB
• PCA
• PCB
• PCN
• PCP
• Pentabromobenzyl acrylate
• Pentachlorobenzene
• PFOS
• Quinoxyfen
• Simazine
• TBBP-A
• TBT
• TCB
• Tetrasul
• Trifluralin
• VOC
• Zinc

Risk analysis

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

Dictionary

• Antifouling paints
• Bioaccumulation
• Bioindicator
• Biomagnification
• Blubber
• Dry weight
• Endocrine disrupting compounds
• Endocrine system
• Flame retardant
• Half-life
• Heavy metals
• Immunodeficiency
• Lipid weight
• Organochlorine pesticides
• Organochlorine compounds
• Organotin compounds
• Pesticide
• Metallothionein
• Methylmercury
• Minamata disease
• Persistent
• Pollution
• Pollutant
• Surfactant
• Toxic
• Xenobiotic
• Vitellogenins
• Volatile
• Wet weight