Contamination of Marine Ecosystems in Polar Regions: Basics and Applications

Contamination of Marine Ecosystems in Polar Regions: Basics and Applications provides an illustrative account of ecology and ecotoxicology of the Arctic and Antarctic Regions, both suffering from multiple stresses with environmental consequences for the marine ecosystems. This book is based on the author's lectures and research over the past 10 years and guides the reader through the emerging problems of the contamination in broad, topical ecological perspectives. For instance, the distribution of persistent organic pollutants in marine trophic webs, the transfer from abiotic compartments to organisms, the human chemical impacts, the effects of global change on the contaminant distribution, the consequences of tourism in warming polar oceans are discussed and case studies are presented.

Contamination of Marine Ecosystems in Polar Regions: Basics and Applications is structured into two parts: the first part will provide the reader with basics of geography, polar climate, ecosystem structure, contaminant properties, transport to polar regions, marine biology and ecology; the second part presents case studies to argue the topics described in the Part 1 from an ecological perspective. The range of readers