US EPA

5881007 

Journal Article 

Review 

Effects of pollution on marine organisms 

Mearns, AJ; Reish, DJ; Bissell, M; Morrison, AM; Rempel-Hester, MA; Arthur, C; Rutherford, N; Pryor, R 

2018 

1 

Water Environment Research
ISSN: 1061-4303
EISSN: 1554-7531 

90 

10 

1206-1300 

English 

30126483 

10.2175/106143018X15289915807218 

WOS:000485827300016 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2175/106143018X15289915807218
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This review covers selected 2017 articles on the biological effects of pollutants and human physical disturbances on marine and estuarine plants, animals, ecosystems and habitats. The review, based largely on journal articles, covers field and laboratory measurement activities (bioaccumulation of contaminants, field assessment surveys, toxicity testing and biomarkers) as well as pollution issues of current interest including endocrine disrupters, emerging contaminants, wastewater discharges, marine debris, dredging and disposal etc. Special emphasis is placed on effects of oil spills and marine debris due largely to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and proliferation of data on the assimilation and effects of marine debris microparticulates. Several topical areas reviewed in the past (e.g.mass mortalities ocean acidification) were dropped this year. The focus of this review is on effects, not on pollutant sources, chemistry, fate or transport. There is considerable overlap across subject areas (e.g.some bioaccumulation data may be appear in other topical categories such as effects of wastewater discharges, or biomarker studies appearing in oil toxicity literature). Therefore, we strongly urge readers to use keyword searching of the text and references to locate related but distributed information. Although nearly 400 papers are cited, these now represent a fraction of the literature on these subjects. Use this review mainly as a starting point. And please consult the original papers before citing them.