The South China Sea is poorly understood in terms of its marine biota, ecology and the
human impacts upon it. What is known is most often contained in reports and workshop and …

Contamination of persistent organochlorines (OCs) such as PCBs (polychlorinated
biphenyls), DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), HCH (hexachlorocyclohexane) isomers …

The Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin (Sousa chinensis Osbeck, 1765) is found throughout
the western Pacific and Indian oceans, from southern China and northern Australia in the …

The interpretation of the spatial and temporal patterns of variation in organochlorine
concentrations in marine mammal populations is complex because of the lack of wide-scale …

Since the early 1990s, there has been an active program in Hong Kong to manage and
protect local populations of small cetaceans from the effects of massive development in the …

Abstract The IUCN Red List designation of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa
chinensis) is re-assessed in light of its newly recognized taxonomic status (it has recently …

Abstract Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) are apex predators in the Pearl
River Estuary waters (PRE) of China. PCBs, DDTs and other organochlorine pesticides …

Estimates of demographic parameters and predictive modeling of population viability furnish
baseline evidence for informed management of species and populations. There are very few …

Dietary information derived from the examination of stomach contents of 29 Indo-Pacific
humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) stranded in Hong Kong waters is presented in this …

Abstract Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) are chronically exposed to
organic pollutants since they inhabit shallow coastal waters that are often impacted by …