Effects of Pollutants on Marine Organisms

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Excerpt from Effects of Pollutants on Marine Organisms: Deliberations and Recommendations of the National Science Foundation, International Decade of Ocean Exploration, Effects of Pollutants on Marine Organisms Study, August 11-14, 1974The iboe Effects of Pollutants on Marine Organisms Program is designed to learn whether the levels of pollutants shown to be present in the oceans in the Baseline and Transfer Programs are now having or may in the future have a deleterious effect on life in the sea. Such potential damage is the overriding reason for studies of ocean pollu tion.The goals of the research projects in the Effects of Pollutants on Marine Organisms Program were established as: to establish the level of pollutant just necessary to cause clear mortality for open ocean and coastal marine organisms, (2) to determine the sublethal effects of pollutants on organisms, to learn the mechanism of pollutant effect on specific critical functions, to identify by careful chem ical analyses the toxic or damaging chemical Species.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.