Marine Pollution Including Ocean Acidification, Eutrophication, Marine Debris, Mercury in Fish, and Active Sonar [Book]

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Marine pollution occurs when harmful effects, or potentially harmful effects, can result from the entry into the ocean of chemicals, particles, industrial, agricultural and residential waste, noise, or the spread of invasive organisms. Many potentially toxic chemicals adhere to tiny particles which are then taken up by plankton and benthos animals, most of which are either deposit or filter feeders. Toxic metals can also be introduced into marine food webs. These can cause a change to tissue matter, biochemistry, behaviour, reproduction, and suppress growth in marine life. This book studies various types of marine pollution including carbon sink, adsorption, biomagnification, and bioaccumulation. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. « less

Product Specification

Authors: Patrick Sing

Pages: 118

Format: paperback

Publication Date: February 28, 2012
Universal Product Identifiers

ISBN: 1276213255

GTIN: 09781276213257