Contamination of Marine Ecosystems in Polar Regions
Basics and Applications
- 1st Edition - March 1, 2026
- Author: Simonetta Corsolini
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 8 6 9 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 8 7 0 - 2
Contamination of Marine Ecosystems in Polar Regions: Basics and Applications discusses the pressing environmental issues facing the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The book is based… Read more
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Contamination of Marine Ecosystems in Polar Regions: Basics and Applications discusses the pressing environmental issues facing the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The book is based on the author's lectures and research over the past decade, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of marine contamination from an ecological standpoint. Key topics include the distribution of persistent organic pollutants, their transfer from non-living compartments to organisms, human chemical impacts, global change effects on pollutant distribution, and how tourism affects warming polar oceans.
- Features case studies, explaining how conclusions could and can be drawn, and how polar ecology can help to disentangle contaminant fate
- Includes numerous photos of Polar regions and marine organisms captured by the author in the field
- Presents definitions throughout the chapters including of e.g. bioaccumulation processes, persistent organic pollutants, persistent plastic materials, ontogenetic transfer
Post grads and academics (researchers and professors) in the areas of Marine Ecology, Aquatic Ecologists, Marine Biologists, oceanographers, Environmental Toxicology
1. Polar Regions
2. Global Change and pollution in the Polar Region Oceans
3. Contaminants
4. Global dispersion of POPs
5. Contaminants in polar marine ecosystems
2. Global Change and pollution in the Polar Region Oceans
3. Contaminants
4. Global dispersion of POPs
5. Contaminants in polar marine ecosystems
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Simonetta Corsolini
Simonetta Corsolini is a marine biologist with a PhD in Environmental Biology; she is a researcher and teaches Ecotoxicology of Remote Regions and Marine Ecology at the Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Italy. She has studied Antarctic marine organisms since 1992 and has participated in expeditions of the Italian National Programme of Research in Antarctica (PNRA) since 1994. In 2002 she joined the international TUNU Programme led by the University of Tromsø (Norway), and since 2010 she has regularly participated in expeditions to NE Greenland.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, Adjunct Professor, Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ecotoxicology and Remote Regions, University of Siena, Siena, Italy