Marine Organic Pollutants in Polar Regions: An Ecological Perspective provides an illustrative account of ecology and ecotoxicology of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, both suffering from multiple stresses with environmental consequences for their marine ecosystems. This book is based on the author’s lectures and research over the past more than 30 years and guides the reader through the emerging problems of the contamination in broad, topical ecological perspectives. The issues discussed include the fate of persistent organic pollutants in marine trophic webs, the human impacts and related consequences, the effects of global changes on the contaminant distribution, and case studies are presented. Students at any university level, including professors, researchers, general readers, organizations and stakeholders, and the nonspecialist looking for an introduction to polar regions and their marine ecosystems will find this to be a valuable resource in understanding the effects of pollution in Antarctica and the Arctic.
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Table of Contents
1. Polar Regions2. Global Change and pollution in the Polar Region Oceans
3. Contaminants
4. Global dispersion of POPs
5. Contaminants in polar marine ecosystems
Authors
Simonetta Corsolini Senior Researcher, Adjunct Professor, Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ecotoxicology and Remote Regions, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.Simonetta Corsolini is a marine biologist with a PhD in Environmental Biology; she is a researcher and teaches Ecotoxicology of Remote Regions and Marine Ecology at the Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Italy. She has studied Antarctic marine organisms since 1992 and has participated in expeditions of the Italian National Programme of Research in Antarctica (PNRA) since 1994. In 2002 she joined the international TUNU Programme led by the University of Troms� (Norway), and since 2010 she has regularly participated in expeditions to NE Greenland.
