The fate and transportation of mercury in the marine environment are driven by a
combination of anthropogenic atmospheric and aquatic sources, as well as natural …

While there is now an established recognition of microplastic pollution in the oceans, and
the detrimental effects this may have on marine animals, the ocean depth at which such …

This chapter deals with the distribution and speciation of mercury in the water column,
sediment and biota of both the Western and Eastern Basins of the Mediterranean Sea based …

During the past few decades, increasing concern about environmental pollution has led to
many investigations on heavy metals and their distribution in the sea, air or biological …

Complex and ever changing in its forms and functions, the element mercury follows a
convoluted course through the environment and up the food chain. The process is …

Concentrations of total mercury and methylmercury were analysed in muscle, kidney and
liver samples from 57 harbour porpoises and three white-beaked dolphins, stranded or by …

Liver samples of Stenella coeruleoalba dolphins, beached along the Adriatic and Ionian
coasts of Apulia (southern Italy), have been analysed for their mercury, methyl mercury and …

Mercury levels were determined in the tissues and organs (lung, liver, kidney, skin, muscle,
bone) of five toothed-whales stranded along the Corsican coast between November 1993 …

Samples of liver from forty-two marine mammals of six species found on the coast of Wales
and the Irish Sea in 1989–1991 have been analysed for a range of trace metals (Cr, Ni, Cu …

Since 1990, tissue samples from UK-stranded and-bycaught cetaceans have been available
for study of contaminant burdens. These have been used to study spatial and temporal …