Congener Specific Determination and Enantiomeric Ratios of Chiral Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Striped Dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) from the Mediterranean Sea

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 1787-1793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Reich ◽  
Begoña Jimenez ◽  
Letizia Marsili ◽  
Luis Manuel Hernández ◽  
Volker Schurig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polychlorinated Biphenyls ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Stenella Coeruleoalba ◽  
Chiral Polychlorinated Biphenyls ◽  
Specific Determination ◽  
The Mediterranean

The presence of Brucella ceti ST26 in a striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) with meningoencephalitis from the Mediterranean Sea

2013 ◽  
Vol 164 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 158-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Alba ◽  
Giuliana Terracciano ◽  
Alessia Franco ◽  
Serena Lorenzetti ◽  
Cristiano Cocumelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Stenella Coeruleoalba ◽  
Striped Dolphin ◽  
The Mediterranean

Postnatal ossification of the thoracic limb in striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) (Meyen, 1833) from the Mediterranean Sea

1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (7) ◽  
pp. 1286-1293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro DiGiancamillo ◽  
Giovanni Rattegni ◽  
Michela Podestà ◽  
Luigi Cagnolaro ◽  
Bruno Cozzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Stenella Coeruleoalba ◽  
Thoracic Limb ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals Atmospheric occurrence, transport and deposition of polychlorinated biphenyls and hexachlorobenzene in the Mediterranean and Black Seas

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 9747-9781 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Berrojalbiz ◽  
J. Castro-Jiménez ◽  
G. Mariani ◽  
J. Wollgast ◽  
G. Hanke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polychlorinated Biphenyls ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Oh Radicals ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressures ◽  
Air Mass ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Water Equilibrium ◽  
Mediterranean And Black Seas ◽  
Atmospheric Concentrations

Abstract. The Mediterranean and Black Seas are unique marine environments subject to important anthropogenic pressures due to direct and indirect loads of atmospheric inputs of organochlorine compounds (OCl) from primary and secondary sources. Here we report the results obtained during two east-west sampling cruises in June 2006 and May 2007 from Barcelona to Istanbul and Alexandria, respectively, where gas phase and aerosol samples were collected. Both matrices were analyzed for 41 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), including dioxin-like congeners, and hexachlorobencene (HCB). The values reported in this study for gas phase HCB and ∑41PCB (LOD to 418.3 pg m−3 and from 81.99 to 931.6 pg m−3 respectively) are in the same range of those reported in former studies, possibly suggesting a limited decline in their atmospheric concentrations during the last decade for the Mediterranean region due to land base OCl sources. There is a clear influence of the direction of the air-mass on the atmospheric concentrations of PCBs, with higher concentrations when the air mass was from southern Europe, and the lowest concentrations for air masses coming from the SW Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean. PCBs and HCB are close to air–water equilibrium for most sampling periods, thus resulting in low atmospheric deposition fluxes at open sea. This is consistent with the oligotrophic character of the Mediterranean Sea with a small influence of the biological pump capturing atmospheric PCBs. Therefore, degradation of gas-phase PCBs by OH radicals is estimated to be the main loss process of atmospheric PCBs during their transport over the Mediterranean Sea. Conversely, atmospheric residence times of HCB are predicted to be very long due to a lack of atmospheric degradation and low depositional fluxes due to concentrations at air–water equilibrium.

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