High PCB Concentrations in Free-Ranging Pacific Killer Whales, Orcinus orca: Effects of Age, Sex and Dietary Preference

By P. Ross, G. Ellis, M. Ikonomou, L. Barrett‐Lennard, R. Addison. 2000

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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• Culture and conservation of non-humans with reference to whales and dolphins: review and new directions (2004, background): “The residents are threatened by declines in salmon stocks and by rampant whale-watching (Osborne, 1999; Trites and Barrett-Lennard, 2001; Erbe, 2002; NOAA, 2002), while for transients extreme concentrations of pollutants linked to their high trophic level (Ross et al., 2000) are probably the major c”
• The role of animal behaviour in the study of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (2004, neutral): “1976), and significant biomagnification has been observed in several species of marine mammals (Ross et al. 2000; Ikonomou et al. 2002).”
• Marine mammals as ecosystem sentinels (2008, background): “Although actual levels of pollutants in tissues of marine mammals are mediated by a number of biological and ecological processes (Ross et al. 2000), an increasing number of studies illustrate the utility of marine mammals to indicate the prevalence and persistence of pollutants in marine…”
• Quantifying the effects of prey abundance on killer whale reproduction (2009, background): “Accumulation of some contaminants over a life span may decrease reproductive performance ( Ross et al . 2000 ).”
• Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds: An Overview on Their Occurrence in the Aquatic Environment and Human Exposure (2021, background): “Even in teleosts, seals, whales, and other mammals, several studies described the EDC-induced reproductive failure and thyroidal anomalies due to PCB and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) contamination [49,206,207].”
• Fireproof killer whales (Orcinus orca): flame-retardant chemicals and the conservation imperative in the charismatic icon of British Columbia, Canada (2006, background): “…Northeast Pacific Ocean, including PCBs, dioxins, furans, organochlorine pesticides, and the flame retardants polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs), and PBDEs (Ross et al. 2000; Ylitalo et al. 2001; Rayne et al. 2004), reflecting net accumulation from ingested prey.”