Marine pollution and zooplankton: some recent trends in marine pollution studies

The presence of even very minute quantities of pollutants may become harmful either due to their direct effect on zooplankton or indirectly due to the transfer of the pollutants to other trophic levels through zooplankton. The recent trend in marine pollution studies is therefore to find out the effects of very minute quantities of these pollutants on marine zooplankton and the methods of their accumulation and transfer to the organisms of higher trophic level including man. A review of laboratory and field studies concerning the effects of pollutants such as hydrocarbons, crude oil, heavy metals, pesticides and heated waste water on the survival, breeding, movement, faecal pellet production, growth and development on marine zooplankton is presented.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Bhattacharya, S.S.
Format:	article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	1988
Subjects:	Biology, Pollution, trophic levels, biological production, pollution effects, zooplankton, food webs, marine, India,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1834/31794
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