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Marine Pollution
Summary
This book provides comprehensive coverage of marine pollution in a question-and-answer format, with dedicated chapters on nutrients, metals, oil, pesticides, plastics, and microplastics. The work synthesizes scientific evidence on the sources, fate, and ecological effects of diverse marine pollutants, providing an accessible reference for students and practitioners.
This book provides thorough and accessible coverage of the topic in a Q&A format. Starting with a chapter giving background information about the marine environment, the following chapters are each devoted to a particular type of pollution: nutrients and harmful algal blooms, metals, oil, pesticides and industrial organic chemicals, litter (mostly plastic), microplastics, emerging concerns (pharmaceuticals, flame retardants, PFAS, noise and light pollution), bioaccumulation and biomagnification, climate change and ocean acidification, biological pollution (including invasive species), and a final chapter on regulating and reducing pollution. Each of the chapters on a particular type of pollution includes questions about where the pollutants come from, what happens to them in the ocean, what effects they may have on marine organisms, and what can be done about it (including clean-ups and prevention through actions of individuals and through laws and regulations). It is written in an accessible form for the interested general public, environmentalists, naturalists, beach-goers, snorkelers and divers, and students.